Tip ‘O The Iceberg

by digby

This is a bad story and it does show that the government has used its wiretapping capability to violate the first amendment, but I have to say that I think Mueller is crying crocodile tears in order to imply that this is the extent of it. I just do not believe that with what we know of the government’s behavior in the years after 9/11 that this is the only — or the worst — incident of the authorities tracking reporters. I’m fairly sure they “took the gloves off” on that since they took the gloves off on just about everything during that period.

We may never know the details of the secret surveillance program that was so bad that even Mueller couldn’t sign off on it, but the idea that the only reporters they wiretapped during that period were covering Indonesia is a little bit hard to swallow.

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