{"id":18863,"date":"2013-05-14T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18863"},"modified":"2013-05-14T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:41:57","slug":"justice-dept-obtains-a-p-phone-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18863","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept. Obtains A.P. Phone Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/phonepad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11822\" title=\"phonepad\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/phonepad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Attorney General Eric Holder says he played no direct role in the Justice Department&#8217;s secret review of Associated Press phone records. But Holder says it was part of an investigation into what he termed a grave national security leak.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holder says he had removed himself from the matter because of congressional testimony he had given and his dealings with the news media.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The AP in what the news cooperative&#8217;s top executive called a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations gather the news.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holder says officials had been looking into what he calls &#8220;a very serious leak&#8221; that &#8220;put the American people at risk.&#8221; He has assigned Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole to handle the phone records case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Attorney General Eric Holder says he played no direct role in the Justice Department&#8217;s secret review of Associated Press phone records. But Holder says it was part of an investigation into what he termed a grave national security leak. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holder says he had removed himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18866,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863\/revisions\/18866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}