Justice Department's pursuit of AP's phone records is both extreme and dangerous | Glenn Greenwald

The claimed legal basis for these actions is unknown, but the threats they pose to a free press and the newsgathering process are clear

Associated Press on Monday revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) "secretly obtained two months of telephone records of [its] reporters and editors", denouncing it as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into the news gathering process. In a letter sent yesterday to Attorney General Eric Holder, AP's President, Gary Pruitt, detailed that the phone re...