May 15, 200620 yr Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling May 15, 2006 10:33 AM Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources. "It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation. 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. One former official was asked to sign a document stating he was not a confidential source for New York Times reporter James Risen. Our reports on the CIA's secret prisons in Romania and Poland were known to have upset CIA officials. The CIA asked for an FBI investigation of leaks of classified information following those reports. People questioned by the FBI about leaks of intelligence information say the CIA was also disturbed by ABC News reports that revealed the use of CIA predator missiles inside Pakistan. Under Bush Administration guidelines, it is not considered illegal for the government to keep track of numbers dialed by phone customers. The official who warned ABC News said there was no indication our phones were being tapped so the content of the conversation could be recorded. A pattern of phone calls from a reporter, however, could provide valuable clues for leak investigators. http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/0...al_source_.html
May 15, 200620 yr If you are tired of it, know you are being tracked....then sue the government. If it is illegal, it will be stopped. That simple.
May 15, 200620 yr Author If you are tired of it, know you are being tracked....then sue the government. If it is illegal, it will be stopped. That simple. good luck a citizen or anyone not in the "know" trying to find out if someone is tracking their calls. the nsa won't own up to it. they won't even let the dept. of justice know what they are up to and no one in the white house seems to care. abc to nsa: we have an informant telling us you are tracking our calls. nsa: nope. abc: well we were told.... nsa: yeah well you can't prove it. abc: we'll inform the doj ab... nsa: oh yeah them we already told them to foad off.
May 15, 200620 yr I don't think those reporters from ABC News have much to worry about though....looks like they didn't break any laws.
May 15, 200620 yr If you are tired of it, know you are being tracked....then sue the government. If it is illegal, it will be stopped. That simple. You can't sue the military, intelligence, or several other departments of the government without their permission. That really sucks.
May 15, 200620 yr I don't think those reporters from ABC News have much to worry about though....looks like they didn't break any laws. not them that has to worry it is their sources for stories. because bush believes in only reporting the news he states to be reported (or more pointedly chaney tells)
May 15, 200620 yr I don't think those reporters from ABC News have much to worry about though....looks like they didn't break any laws. not them that has to worry it is their sources for stories. because bush believes in only reporting the news he states to be reported (or more pointedly chaney tells) No, Bush doesn't approve of people employed by the government divulging confidential matieral to the media. If the media has a non-leak source, he won't argue with it.
May 16, 200620 yr The NSA needs to be brought down to heel totally and completely. They are there to serve the country not the country serve them. BullSh$$ that they can ignore the justice department. There is a reason for different branches of power. That is something I am really worrying about more and more the weakening of the difference of power in the government.
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