US Justice Dept secretly seizes Associated Press phone records

[Naxere]

Which is really more of an issue with the permissible scope of subpoenas and the people issuing them.

But I don't see that they've done anything illegal.

Nothing illegal, but they sure sent a message to other news organizations in regards to protecting whistleblowers.

[Wells]

I'm not sure how whistle blowers come into this. The DoJ wasn't investigating a whistle blower.

[Naxere]

Source, leak, whatever.

[Wells]

Source, leak, whatever.

There's a world of difference between being a whistle blower and just leaking secret information.

One deserves protection and the other is rightly a serious crime.

[Rukentuts]

Source, leak, whatever.

Last I checked giving out top secret information was treason dude.

[Naxere]

Last I checked giving out top secret information was treason dude.

Oh yeah? Who did he give it to? If it's just:

The subpoenas covered a two-month period around the time AP wrote the story about an alleged conspiracy to detonate an underwear bomb aboard a U.S.-bound airliner. The plot was foiled early on because the alleged bomber was a mole for a foreign intelligence service working against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to officials familiar with the case.

...good luck on the treason charge.

[Wells]

I feel as if you didn't spend sufficient time understanding him.

[Olo]

Oh yeah? Who did he give it to? If it's just:



...good luck on the treason charge.

Someone leaked the fact we had a mole in al-Qaeda forcing us to pull him out

that's pretty fucking serious


I get why the AP is pissed but considering the circumstances imma side with the justice department on this one

edit:
In fact, I’ll take it a step further and suggest AP acted irresponsibility when they printed the original story.

[Naxere]

I feel as if you didn't spend sufficient time understanding him.

If Scooter Libby didn't get brought up on treason charges for outing Valerie Plame, this won't lead to treason charges either.

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Documents attained via legal means because certain people were tipping off certain journalists and media organisations about terrorist attacks.

I see nothing wrong with that.