Obama Administration Secretly Spied on the Associated Pressselfnews Post The establishment news service is typically viewed as a repeater of officialdom, so it came as a bit of a shock to the organization who called it a massive and unprecedented intrusion. AP reports: Still the CEO, Gary Pruitt, feels his organization was violated. 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 APs newsgathering operations, and disclose information about APs activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know, Pruitt wrote in a response to Holder. The AP writes that media companies are normally notified when the government wants phone records, and they usually comply. But in this case the government waived the prior notification with cryptic reasoning that it may haveposed a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation: In other words, it seems like the AP is saying you could have just asked and we probably would have given you what you needed. Yet, the government is just saying well do what we want, thanks. Regardless, the AP has not seen a signed warrant or subpoena from the government, indicating that the DOJ was illegally spying on a major news organization. It appears no one is exempt from Big Brothers overreaches. Read other articles by selfnews Post Here 