Washington: US lawmakers accused the Obama administration on Wednesday of trampling on free speech rights and evading questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records.
US Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying before a House of Representatives panel, provided limited responses on the issue, noting he had been recused from the probe into a government leak that led to the records seizure.
Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee became frustrated that Holder could not answer why the subpoena to obtain the records was so broad and why the Justice Department did not first try to negotiate with AP to obtain information.
"We don't know where the buck stops," said US Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican....
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03:48 AM, May 16, 2013
Washington: In an unusual move, US Justice Department secretly obtained two months' of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press, an action termed by the global news wire as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how it gathers the news. The Justice Department obtained secret records as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot in 2012. The Associated Press,...
10:56 AM, May 14, 2013
London: Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press on Tuesday, sending out an erroneous tweet about an attack at the White House. The tweet said that there had been two explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama was injured. The attack on AP's Twitter account and AP Mobile Twitter account was preceded by a phishing attempt on AP's corporate network. The AP confirmed that its Twitter account...
11:46 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Show Bits brings you the 70th annual Golden Globes awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. ...
10:43 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Major agencies Reuters and Associated Press have decided to boycott the India-England Test series after the BCCI's decision to bar photo agencies. ...
11:28 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New York: In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a former schoolhouse in Reims, France. For this, he was publicly rebuked by the AP, and then quietly fired. The problem: Kennedy had defied military censors to get...
03:40 PM, May 04, 2012
London: Facial recognition technology being considered for London's 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain's riots, a senior police chief told The Associated Press on Thursday, with officers feeding photographs of suspects through Scotland Yard's newly updated face-matching program. Chief Constable Andy Trotter of the British Transport Police said the sophisticated software was being used to help find those suspected of being involved in the worst...
02:56 PM, Aug 12, 2011
Most Americans predict a terror attack, death and destruction from a natural disaster and a warmer planet in 2007. ...
05:12 PM, Jan 01, 2007
An AP photographer was freed unharmed after a harrowing day by Palestinians who abducted him on gunpoint. ...
11:04 AM, Oct 25, 2006
Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a photographer working for the Associated Press news agency in the Gaza Strip. ...
04:14 PM, Oct 24, 2006
