Tom Detzel

AP Spying: An Unprecedented Invasion of the Fourth Estate

insideprivacy.com — In dim Mexican restaurants, behind abandoned schools, and on nameless suburban street corners, I met some of the bravest people that I have ever known. And I can't tell you the name of a single one of them. During my seven years as a professional journalist, these sources gave me information about government corruption, nonprofit mismanagement, and corporate malfeasance.

Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

bigstory.ap.org — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists for The Associated Press in what AP's top executive says is an unprecedented intrusion into newsgathering.Prosecutors took records showing incoming and outgoing calls for work and personal numbers for individual reporters, plus for general AP offices in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn.

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How Hezbollah Trained an Operative to Spy on Israeli Tourists

propublica.org — In a report to be published by a West Point think tank next week, a former U.S. counterterror official argues that the Cyprus case and an attack on Israelis in Bulgaria last year show that Hezbollah has returned to aggressive operations on European soil.

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Boston Bombing Suspects Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London Attacks

propublica.org — The story of the Boston bombers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, is still unfolding at high speed. Many aspects of the case, including the brothers' motivations, are not yet clear. But a portrait began to emerge Friday based on ProPublica interviews with counterterror officials, the public statements of relatives and associates, and reports in the media.