ABC: Administration Tracking Media Calls

ABC reports on its blog, The Blotter, that a confidential source reveals "the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources." The Chicago Tribune blog, The Swamp echos the story, noting that the government official told Ross and Esposito to "Get new cellphones."

ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.

Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.

Like Mike Adams, I'm not sure why this would surprise anyone who has watched this Administration in action. Government employees that reporters view as whistleblowers are viewed inside the Administration as traitors. I doubt the Pentagon Papers would be leaked or published today. Stories like this one are not designed to initimidate the press, they are designed to intimidate employees.

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