Reporter's phone, bank and travel records seized as hunt for whistleblowers is stepped up

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Daily Mail

As the fallout from the Wikileaks revelations rumble on, new details have emerged of the extraordinary lengths prosecutors will go to identify leakers.

Court papers in the case of a former CIA officer accused of spilling secrets show that prosecutors got hold of a reporter's phone, credit and bank records, his credit report from three different agencies and records of his airline travel.

Ex-CIA officer, Jeffrey Sterling, was indicted in December on charges that he disclosed 'national defense information' to New York Times reporter James Risen.

He is accused of revealing secrets about Iran’s nuclear program.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361003/Reporters-phone-bank-travel-records-seized-hunt-whistleblowers-stepped-up.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[gateley]

1. What's NOT Big Brother about this? What's NOT Nazi/KGB about this? What's

NOT McCarthy about this??

This witch hunt for WikiLeaks "sympathizers" INFURIATES me!

[villager]

2. Gotta love the hope & change!

How much...different it all seems now!

[Skip_In_Boulder]

14. Yeah, it's always better when a Democrat is subverting the Constitution

as opposed to a Republican doing it.

Is there any such thing as the good guys and the bad guys anymore?

[DeSwiss]

3. Let's just make sure.....

...that Obama doesn't get any blame for this, okay? I mean sure, it's his watch now. And he picked the people who are doing this to "save" the country. But if it's bad stuff like we'd expect to happen under one of those Bush-type presidents, then it's not Obama's fault that it's happening. Why? Because he only does the good things, see?

- And besides, freedom of the press is conditional when NATIONAL SECURITY is at stake. Okay?

K&R

[bethfully]

4. I wonder if

journalists are going to need to step up their solidarity w/ one another a la the union resurgence?

[inna]

5. "Reforming American schools"

- for the corporations, not for the 21st century.

God, I hate that picture/slogan in your sig.

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. Get used to it. President Obama has almost 22 months left in his 1st term and a great chance at

reelection.

[sudopod]

12. Get used to it? Sounds like Gov Walker. :p nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

20. Sounds like you are confused a bit

[inna]

13. completely irrelevant and a non sequitur

What in the world does Obama's reelection have to do with any of this?


(nm, purely rhetorical)

[Freddie Stubbs]

18. It has to do with the fact that he will be advocating his education policies until 2017

[StarsInHerHair]

15. I think that's akin to Hilary Clinton's remarks about the stability of Egypt's gov

you just can't tell........

[Freddie Stubbs]

19. In free and fair elections, you can't be someone with no one

Mubarek didn't leave because another candidate was more popular than him.

[Gregorian]

6. Witches, commies, pot smokers, terrorists, and now whistle blowers.

Give it up! There's millions more where the Bernard Mannings come from.

[truth2power]

7. My, oh my...I thought Obama wanted us to look forward...

He couldn't be bothered to bring the Bushco war criminals to trial. But he and his DOJ can turn over every rock to find out who was intemperate enough to speak the truth about ongoing US govt. crimes. Yes, indeedy!

I despise that man more each day.

[cliffordu]

9. Well...

Who cares??

:rofl:

[truth2power]

16. Your approval, or lack thereof, is of no concern to me. Have a good day. n/t

[DeSwiss]

11. I know what you mean.

[midnight]

10. I'm not sure what else wikileaks will reveal, but these leaks are nothing compared to the

disclosures bush and his administration have written in their books and are selling.... We won't prosecute those crimes documented by the criminals themselves? I suppose Spain will have to do that.... We are busy with medicare fraud and reporters revealing secrets....

[truth2power]

17. That's an important point. The Cheney/Bush criminals actually confess

to having committed war crimes. In one sense they're doing AG Holder's work for him.

Yet not a peep from Pres. Obama. Says something about whose interests they are serving, and they're not those of the American people.

[Bandit]

21. But the Bush* Cabal walks free and laughing at America..

:shrug: There are days when I really believe America deserves everything it gets...