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UNPRECEDENTED: DOJ Caught Spying on the Associated Press

It's unprecedented, and it's outrageous.  

The Associated Press is reporting that the Department of Justice spied on two months of reporters calls in New York, Hartford, and DC -- including their phone line in the press office in the House of Representatives!

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

Please add your name at right to demand a Congressional investigation of the DOJ's spying on the Associated Press.

This is part and parcel of an ongoing war on freedom of the press and on whistleblowers -- with the Obama administration having prosecuted more whistleblowers than all prior presidents combined.  

Intrustions like these create a chilling effect that undermines the press and our democracy -- and makes our society less free and open. Please add your name to the right and use these links to urge your friends to do the same:

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The AP's CEO Gary Pruitt wrote a letter to the DOJ that underscores the obscenity of this spying: 

"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know."

Enough is enough.  Add your name at right to help us put an end to the war on freedom of the press.

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Here's the AP's story on the spying.