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[privacy] FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:49:47 GMT
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito report on the ABC News "The Blotter": [snip] The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters phone records in leak investigations. It used to be very hard and complicated to do this, but it no longer is in the Bush administration, said a senior federal official. The acknowledgement followed our blotter item that ABC News reporters had been warned by a federal source that the government knew who we were calling. The official said our blotter item was wrong to suggest that ABC News phone calls were being tracked. Think of it more as backtracking, said a senior federal official. [snip] More: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/fbi_acknowledge.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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