TOPICS > Nation  Justice Dept. Subpoenas  BY Admin  September 7,
2001 at 12:00 PM EDT  Aside from phone records, the department
said it has subpoenaed journalists an additional 60 times since
1991 for documents, testimony or both.  The statement came in
response to questions over the department’s decision to obtain
home telephone records of an AP reporter in May.  The reporter,
John Solomon, who heads the AP’s investigative unit in
Washington, wrote a story May 4 that quoted unnamed government
officials as saying Sen. Robert Torricelli had been overheard on
an FBI wiretap related to an organized crime investigation. It
would be illegal for a government official to release
information related to a federal wiretap.  Solomon was told in
August that the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York had obtained
records of his incoming and outgoing calls for the period
between May 2 and May 7.  Yesterday’s disclosure prompted a
series of questions from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA). Grassley,
a member of the Senate Judiciary