The Associated Press is protesting what it calls a massive and unprecedented intrusion into its news gathering. The target of that wrath is the U.S. Justice Department, which secretly collected phone records for several AP reporters last year.
The Associated Press says the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of its journalists' telephone records as part of a secret government investigation.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the AP president says there can be 'no possible justification' for the breach of confidential communications.