The Obama Justice Department under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder recorded secretly for two months of phone conversations -April and May 2012- of reporters and editors of The Associated Press, one of the most important press agencies in the United States and the world.

AP CEO Gary Pruitt called this operation a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into newsgathering of a news organization. 

After Benghazi and IRS, is this nixonian affair the last chapter of the Hottest Week for Obama's Administration?

More than 20 telephone lines assigned to AP were seized by government during this time without knowledge or consent of the AP managers. These lines could have been used by an unknown number of journalists, impossible to concrete except for the officials of the Justice Department implied in this operation. These recordings includes the watching of confidential sources and also the way that reporters gathered the news.

It’s a good thing the White House holds those press briefings, because how else would the President of the United States and his staff learn what’s going on in the world? Obama doesn’t get to watch TV during the day, so he learns about breaking scandals the same time the rest of us do, and sometimes much later. It’s no surprise, then, that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney claims the White House didn’t know anything about Eric Holder and the Justice Department pulling the phone records of AP reporters.

The Department of Justice? That’s just another independent organization, like the IRS or the State Department or the Vice President or @barackobama [...]

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