Even this prime Wall Street media source is concerned about this late-breaking revelation of US government surveillance of the personal communications of AP journalists. It appears that the full-spectrum surveillance structures that have been set up in recent years is now being applied on journalists. The end effect, of course, will be to intimidate journalists, especially independent journalists, their sources, and whistle-blowers. Welcome to the Orwellian world of "thought police".
Media groups and government watchdogs said the U.S. Justice Department interfered with press freedom when it secretly collected telephone records from Associated Press reporters and editors over a two-month period last year.Eric Draitser provides us with the more chilling implications of this incident in the last part of this 3:32m video from RT.