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To: Sully- who wrote (19987)	5/15/2006 6:56:25 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

It's About Time We Started Getting Serious About Investigating These Leaks John Hawkins Right Wing News The left side of the blogosphere is all up in arms about this story: <<< "A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources. "It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation. ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls. Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation." >>> Is this story true? It's not true? No idea. If it is true, here's my reaction... Applause! Conservatives have been calling for the CIA to get serious about investigating leaks of classified data for years and what better way is there to do that than to check out whom the reporters receiving leaked information are calling? The whole idea that it's OK for a reporter to be able to obtain classified info from a secret source that damages our national security, but it's not OK for the government to actually investigate the reporter and try to find out where he got the info from, is ridiculous. Although I DO NOT favor locking up reporters for reporting classified info, I don't have any problem at all with the government trying to find out who's leaking that classified info to the press. These leakers in the intelligence community have gravely compromised our national security for their own selfish reasons and they need to be ferreted out, fired, and then punished to the fullest extent of the law. If this isn't a bogus story, it sounds like the government is finally on the right track. rightwingnews.com blogs.abcnews.com

To: Sully- who wrote (19987)	5/16/2006 3:45:55 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

More On Journalists' Phone Records Media Blog Stephen Spruiell Reporting Josh Gerstein has followed up on yesterday's ABC News report about law enforcement officials examining journalists' phone records in order to find government leakers: <<< A former counterterrorism chief at the CIA, Vincent Cannistraro, told The New York Sun yesterday that FBI sources have confirmed to him that reporters' calls are being tracked as part of the probe. "The FBI is monitoring calls of a number of news organizations as part of this leak investigation," Mr. Cannistraro, who has worked as a consultant for ABC, said "It is going on. It is widespread and it may entail more than those three media outlets." [...] An FBI spokesman, Bill Carter, called the ABC report "misleading,"but did not dispute that journalists' phone records have been obtained by his agency. "In any case where the records of a private person are sought, they may only be obtained through established legal process," he said. >>> It seems more and more that this has nothing to do with the NSA's phone data program, and is part of a routine investigation into the illegal disclosure of classified national security information. The FBI is entitled to subpoena phone records in the course of its investigation. Should journalists be exempt from that rule? media.nationalreview.com nysun.com blogs.abcnews.com

To: Sully- who wrote (19987)	5/16/2006 4:25:14 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

News Media Clueless On Phones By AJStrata on Leak Investigations The Strata-Sphere Mac Ranger posted on this post by ABC reporters who are finally getting the hint that leaking national security information to terrorists (which is where it goes when the media exposes it) will end. What was so funny was the igorance of these people: <<< A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources. “It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation. ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls. >>> Emphasis mine. Have these two id-juts ever seen a phone bill? You know, the government can request a log of all calls to and from their phones. I mean, Duh!, they are their phones. On a serious note, the article does confirm the investigation into leaks continues apace: <<< Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation. One former official was asked to sign a document stating he was not a confidential source for New York Times reporter James Risen. >>> If people cannot act responsibly with the press passes they have been given, the government is not required to trust them, or tal to them. Spilling secrets to our enemies should be career ending, and the market place is taking care of that. strata-sphere.com macsmind.blogspot.com blogs.abcnews.com