It's Funny Until Someone Puts an Eye Out: Administration Secretly Obtains AP Reporters/Editors Phone Records

Waddya wanna bet the lapdogs of the press will just roll over and say rub my belly?
From the Associated Press:

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies....MORE

Or maybe not. If the strongly worded letter doesn't work maybe they'll picket the White House.
The chant is a bit rusty though, the reporters haven't seen anything to protest it in a while:

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Start tapping these ball-less wonders Mr. President, if it's good enough for Piers Morgan it's good enough for you.