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Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling

May 15, 2006

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.

Our reports on the CIA's secret prisons in Romania and Poland were known to have upset CIA officials. The CIA asked for an FBI investigation of leaks of classified information following those reports....

There are no new stories, only old tales dressed in new robes.

In between Moonshots & Tsunamis, mankind finds some amazingly ridiculous ways to twiddle his thumbs and waste his time. Are you like me? Do you increasingly wonder how long you can coexist with those who do not realize they have opposable thumbs or that fire burns?