Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E-Mail in Criminal Conspiracy Investigation

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Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E-Mail in Criminal Conspiracy Investigation

In an effort to unmask a leaker who fed a reporter classified information about North Korea, FBI investigators tracked the journalist’s movements in and out of a government building, obtained copies of his phone records and personal e-mails and also took

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/feds-tracked-fox-news-reporter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Threat+Level%29

“Never in the history of the Espionage Act has the government accused a reporter of violating the law for urging a source to disclose information,” Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project said in a statement. “This is a dangerous precedent that threatens to criminalize routine investigative journalism.”