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Monday, the Associated Press (AP) published a letter to U.S.
Attorney General Eric Holder criticizing the Justice Department
for obtaining records of phone calls made to AP reporters and
editors.  The AP said the government had disclosed subpoenas
allowing it to obtain the phone data on Friday. More than 20
telephone lines belonging to AP staffers, editors and bureaus
were probed by the government. The president of the AP, Gary
Pruitt, called the subpoenas a “massive and unprecedented
intrusion” against its First Amendment rights by the government
and demanded that all data collected by federal agents be
destroyed, CNN notes.  The Justice Department did not say why it
obtained the records. However, the AP said the federal
investigators were probing the leak of information regarding a
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