The Wire

[lady_mactrouser]

Here's another wrinkle in the administration's phone records search: they are apparently routinely checking on reporter's phone records to see if they can identify employees in the federal government who leak information to the press.

Check out this item on ABC News:

The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly  seeking reporters' phone

Comments

[madknits]

With the domestic spying and the unicameral government we now have, we have left the realms of democracy and entered into tyrany, absolute monarchy ("It's legal because I say it's legal") and dictatorship. With the administration ignoring the checks and balances that were put in place over 220 years ago, we have become the thing we most fear and despise. I also believe that the terrorists won. Our country is no longer a free country. We are now a frightened, limited and limiting realm. And yes, that last word was chosen specifically.

[nonnkag]

Too bad that I don't have any secret sources, so that I can actually worry about protecting the identity of my sources...

[lady_mactrouser]

Yeah, for people with secret sources, I guess it's back to underground parking garages, a la Woodward & Deep Throat.

[slochaos]

A George Carlin skit from the '70s talks about a guy in Washington who knew his phone was tapped and and answered it, "Fuck Hoover. Yes, go ahead." Sometimes my mom or I answer the phone that way when the other calls. For old times' sake it's touching to know that it's appropriate to answer the phone that way at home and at work.

[lady_mactrouser]

Alas, "Fuck Negroponte, how may I help you?" just doesn't have the same ring.