Has the US government completely taken leave of it’s senses? According to a posting over on “The Blotter” a senior federal law enforcement official told ABC News that they are monitoring calls that the media makes in an effort to expose confidential sources. WHAT??? I’m at a total loss for words. It’s bad enough that the NSA is recording phone calls of Americans made everyday. But, to admit that they are trying to expose sources? I’m sick to my stomach.
ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.
Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.
This smacks of McCarthyism in the worst way. How long until death squads are rounding up reporters and dropping them in holes in the Nevada desert?
Under Bush Administration guidelines, it is not considered illegal for the government to keep track of numbers dialed by phone customers.
This has gotten completely out of hand. How much of this must go on before the legal process kicks in?
[tags]NSA, ABC News, CIA, Bush, illegal wiretap[/tags]