Former CIA chief: "the FBI is monitoring calls of a number of news..."

[sabra]

http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=32798&access=343605

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Former CIA counterterrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro told the New York Sun that "the FBI is monitoring calls of a number of news organizations as part of this leak investigation. It is going on. It is widespread and it may entail more than those three media outlets."

The three named outlets were ABC News, the New York Times and the Washington Post. "This leak investigation" seems to refer to an FBI investigation of leaks of information about secret CIA prisons.

FBI spokesman Bill Carter told the Sun that the ABC News report was "misleading," but he did not dispute the claim that the FBI had obtained journalists' phone records. "In any case where the records of a private person are sought, they may only be obtained through established legal process," he said.

[bryant69]

1. And since the law is that we can do pretty much whatever we want

Screw reporters.

Bryant
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[aquart]

2. NY Sun? Where is the NYT? Wapo? NY Daily News?

Did they do articles on this? (Entirely possible I missed it. I have a toothache.)

[leveymg]

4. The Sun was the only US paper to cover the Franklin OSP-AIPAC case.

You had to read it or the Israeli press to learn about key developments in that case involving an Israeli espionage scandal,simply because the major U.S. papers have almost entirely blacked it out.

The NY Sun has a strong tie with the neocons, who like us have a serious interest in the issue.

The big dailies have not been very diiligent in covering this scandal, either. One suspects that they've already reached some kind of deal with the Bush Administration. Blackmail, or willing accomplices?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Paging Richard Nixon...

White courtesy telephone, please.