Monday, May 13, 2013

"Under Sweeping Subpoenas, Justice Department Obtained AP Phone Records in Leak Investigation."-Washington Post.

That may be the record for longest headline. 

This is getting weird:

"In a sweeping and unusual move, the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot last year."
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"The aggressive investigation into the possible disclosure of classified information to the AP is part of a pattern in which the Obama administration has pursued current and former government officials suspected of releasing secret material. Six officials have been prosecuted so far, more than under all previous administrations."
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"The inquiry is one of two leak investigations ordered last June by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The second involves a New York Times article about the Stuxnet computer virus, which was developed jointly by the United States and Israel to damage nuclear centrifuges at Iran’s main uranium enrichment plant."

For now I trust the prosecutors.