Justice Department seizure of AP phone records has dangerous implications
The Justice Department’s seizure of telephone records from editors and reporters of The Associated Press was an attack against a free press with dangerous implications for the ability of journalists to gather information, the president of Investigative Reporters and Editors said Tuesday.
“This is what police states do, not governments of the people,” IRE Board President David Cay Johnston said.
“Journalists have a duty to watchdog the government and hold it accountable without surveillance or other interference,” Johnston said.
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months worth of phone records for more than 20 lines assigned to AP and ...
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IRE hosted a Google Hangout on Tuesday with members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who discussed their