Associated Press President and CEO of Sun called a secret government detained for two months a reporter's phone records "unconstitutional" and said that News cooperation does not rule out legal action against the Ministry of Justice.
- Gary Pruitt, in his first television interview since it was revealed that the Ministry of Justice summoned Associated Press reporters and editing phone records, said the move has been news chilling effect. Pruitt said, The prosecution sources reluctant to talk about The Associated Press, in the long run, may limit the information of the Americans, all the news media.
Pruitt told the CBS "facing the country, the Government has no business monitoring the AP news-gathering activities.
"If they limit the device ... the American people will know what kind of government, I hope they know this is not what the framers of the Constitution by the idea, they wrote:" First Amendment " he says. "
AP Pruitt said in a separate interview with the News cooperation has not decided its next move, but does not rule out taking legal action against the Government. He said that the Justice Department is out of control, U.S. President Barack Obama should contain it.
"It is too early to know whether we will take legal action, but I can tell you, we are actively grievances, we feel that our constitutional rights have been violated," Pruitt said.
"They've been secretive, they have been too broad and ill-treatment - that taken together, they are unconstitutional because they violate our First Amendment rights," he added.
Kentucky Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said, the government needs all necessary means to stop the leak.
"This is an investigation needs to happen because of the national security leaks, of course, you can get our overseas agents to kill," he said.
, Members of the Judicial Committee, Republican Senator John Corning, said the government should focus on those who leak sensitive national security matters, rather than who report their reporters. Texas Republican, said his committee should hold a hearing, the Justice Department how to get phone records, and Associated Press reporters and editing.
"I am very upset that the focus of the news, who have a constitutional right in here, we rely on reporters to reach the bottom of so many problems, as individuals, we can not" Corning said.
Corning said the actions of the Department of Justice is quiet criticism of the Obama administration's part of the pattern.
"This is a culture of cover-up and intimidation, to manage so much trouble," Corning said. "
He also once again called for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder on the grounds that contempt for the reference to the House of Representatives voted against him last year refused to hand over documents, government failure firearms smuggling sting.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the president of the Attorney General, the holder has full confidence. "He also insisted that did not participate in the White House decided to seek the phone records of the AP.
"A cardinal rule is that we do not get involved in an independent investigation, this is one of those," Pfeiffer said.
Although the Ministry of Justice does not explain why it sought from the AP's phone records Pruitt, May 7, 2012, the story revolves around the first anniversary of the detailed disclosure of the CIA a successful operation to stop the bomb an airliner in Yemen conspiracy May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.
AP delay in publishing this story the government officials said, would endanger national security requirements.
"We respect, we act responsibly, we hold the story," Pruitt said.
Pruitt said that only two government agencies, officials said, the AP published the story of the threat has passed. He said the government is still required to hold the story until the the official next day, the Associated Press to reject a request.
View News Service story, it is important, because the White House and the Department of Homeland Security officials have publicly said the terrorist threat in the United States, the first anniversary of bin Laden's death there is no credible evidence.
"So it is to the American public misleading, we believe that the American public needs to know this story," Pruitt said.
AP've seen the news interview, because the summons of the Department of Justice disclosed, he said.
Officials usually talk to us, we are talking about people in the normal course of news gathering has been said to us, they are a little reluctant to talk to us, "Pruitt said. "They are worried that they will be regulated by the government."
Department of Justice secret personal and work two months a number of reporters and editors, as well as in New York, Washington and the State of Connecticut, Hartford, the number of telephone records and the main number of the general office of the AP in the House of Representatives for the AP gallery.
"This is a sweeping and broad, and beyond what they need to do," Pruitt said.
He was opposed to the "Department of Justice judge, jury and executioner secret" argument, the AP will not back down.
"We will not be intimidated by the Ministry of Justice abuse tactics," he said.
McConnell and Pfeiffer in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press." Corning "Face the Nation".
 
 



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