Reporters: The New Terrorists

Now, the official line on the NSA's domestic spying plan is that they only are looking for calling patterns that terrorists might use. That is, unless you're a reporter for ABC News, The New York Times, or the Washington Post.

ABC News is reporting that a senior federal law enforcement official told them that the NSA is tracking reporters from the three previously mentioned news divisions in order to determine which security personnel are providing leaks to them. From the ABCNews blog:

"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation.

We do 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.

Hmm, if they are doing that, I'm pretty sure we'll see the NSA do some frogmarching soon from somewhere along Pennsylvania Avenue, perhaps in the 1600 block. All they will have to do is check Robert Novak's phone records around July, 2003. Probably not though.

The real question is when are we going to find out they were using this program to spy on their political rivals. I find it hard these guys got the keys to candy store and didn't at least take a taste.