U.S. Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe

davidfordhere — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:15:09 +0000

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

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Official Statement by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy

davidfordhere — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:54:19 +0000

... "The US administration’s war on whistle-blowers must end. Thomas Drake, William Binney, John Kirakou and the other heroic US whistle-blowers must - they must - be pardoned and compensated for the hardships they have endured as servants of the public record.
And the Army Private who remains in a military prison in Fort Leavenworth Kansas, who was found by the UN to have endured months of torturous detention in Quantico Virginia and who has yet - after two years in prison - to see a trial, must be released." ...

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U.S. Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe

Official Statement by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy