FBI Source Confirms ABC Report on Monitoring of Reporters' Calls

FBI SOURCE CONFIRMS ABC REPORT ON MONITORING OF REPORTERS' CALLS
[SOURCE: Editor&Publisher]
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito of ABC News reported on the networks "The Blotter" web site this morning that a senior federal law enforcement official had informed them that "the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources." This source quipped: "It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick." Late Monday, the ABC reporters updated their account: "The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters’ phone records in leak investigations. “It used to be very hard and complicated to do this, but it no longer is in the Bush administration,” said a senior federal official. He said it wasn't so much that the calls were being "tracked" as "backtracked."
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