Looks like Eric Holder has more questions to lie about. Now DOJ has been found to be looking at the telephone records of the Associated Press.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/13/justice-department-secretly-obtains-ap-phone-records/
Things may have changed since when I was an agent, especially with all the new-fangled gadgets, like I-phones and such. When i was an agent getting phone records from the telephone company was done via administrative subpoena. There was a non-disclosure clause in the subpoena that the suspect was not to be notified for a period of so many days, and that was updated regularly. At a certain point, the telephone company was required to notify the customer that they had turned over toll records to law enforcement.
I never investigated any news agency, and as stated in the article, it apparently requires the attorney general to sign off on such a request due to the protections we afford to the press. Of course, Eric Holder has already testified in Fast and Furious hearings that correspondence that was sent to his desk was never seen by him. (Must have been at the bottom of a big stack of papers).
Let's see what happens in the coming days.
"Let's don't."
I need to get this straight. The DOJ wire-tapped the AP. Are there rules that state cause is needed in order to do a wire-tap and a judge needs to OK this tap? Of course, the AP may be a terrorist organization that does not require an immediate judges order. I always knew that the reporters at the AP were terrorists. It is the way they walk and talk.
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There is nothing worse than the Obama administration covering their right flank by trying to out-Republican the Republicans on national security, and nothing more hypocritical than Republicans pontificating about constitutional rights when they do.
ReplyDelete(Rand Paul can speak without hypocrisy, to the extent he wasn't pushing the neo-con line in the first place).
Squid,
ReplyDeleteNot a wiretap. No conversations were intercepted. They obtained the telephone tolls for the phones showing what numbers were called over the month. It was done with a subpoena. The thing is that when the press is involved, the AG has to sign off on it.