The First Thing That I Thought

Gee, just when the press was getting a spine....

When I heard about the latest phone spying scam at the NSA, I immediately thought 'this is how they catch leakers'. I will try not to pat myself to strenuously on the back as I post this:

From ABC:

Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
May 15, 2006 10:33 AM

Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

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

ABC News does 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.

One former official was asked to sign a document stating he
was not a confidential source for New York Times reporter James Risen.

Read The Rest (but watch who you call) here.