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By Ewen MacAskill in Washington, guardian.co.uk, May 13, 2013
[....] The US attorney's office for the District of Columbia confirmed on Monday that subpoenas had been issued for phone records. It said it valued press freedom but it had to balance this against the public interest.
AP revealed on Monday that the justice department, without informing the organisation in advance, had obtained two months' worth of phone records of calls made by reporters and editors. [....]
The attorney's office refused to say why the seizure had been made but it is almost certainly in relation to an AP exclusive report on 7 May last year in which it reported the CIA had stopped a plot by an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner.
AP at the time agreed to White House and CIA requests to hold back publication because they said an intelligence operation was still under way. After being satisfied that these concerns had been met, AP published on the Monday, ignoring a request from the Obama administration to wait until Tuesday for the official announcement.
The justice department has since launched an investigation into the leak. The phone records of five of the reporters plus an editor involved in the Yemen story were among those taken. [....]
Comments
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 4:45pm
The Hill:
Holder recused himself from DOJ decision to seize AP records
Daniel Strauss and Jordy Yager - 05/14/13 03:23 PM ET
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by artappraiser on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 4:56pm