Associated Press

===Justice Department subpoena of phone records===
{{main|2013 Department of Justice investigations of reporters}}

On May 13, 2013, the AP announced telephone records for 20 of their reporters during a two-month period in 2012, had been [[subpoenaed]] by the [[U.S. Justice Department]] and described these acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering operations.<ref name=TTSanchez>{{cite news |last=Sanchez |first=Raf |title=US Justice Department secretly seizes Associated Press phone records |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html |work=The Telegraph |access-date=May 15, 2013 |location=London |date=May 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514070630/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html |archive-date=May 14, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=TG130513>{{cite news|title=US government secretly obtained Associated Press phone records|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records|work=The Guardian|date=15 May 2013|access-date=17 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927231734/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records|archive-date=27 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP reported that the Justice Department would not say why it sought the records, but sources stated that the [[United States Attorney for the District of Columbia]]'s office was conducting a criminal investigation into a May 7, 2012 AP story about a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operation that prevented a terrorist plot to detonate an explosive device on a commercial flight.<ref name=RC-Ingram>{{cite news|last=Ingram|first=David|title=Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records|url=http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513|work=Reuters Canada|access-date=15 May 2013|date=2013-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529084725/http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513|archive-date=29 May 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The DOJ did not direct subpoenas to the AP, instead going to their phone providers, including [[Verizon Wireless]].<ref name=verizonslate>{{cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Ryan |title=Verizon Wireless Secretly Passed AP Reporters' Phone Records to Feds |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html |work=Slate |access-date=20 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130519142639/http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html |archive-date=19 May 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[U.S. Attorney General]] [[Eric Holder]] testified under oath in front of the House Judiciary Committee that he recused himself from the leak investigations to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. Holder said his Deputy Attorney General, [[James M. Cole]], was in charge of the AP investigation and would have ordered the subpoenas.<ref name=nbcpolitics>{{cite news |last= Curry |first= Tom |title= Holder addresses AP leaks investigation, announces IRS probe |url= http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe |work= NBC News |access-date= 1 June 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130608041857/http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe |archive-date= 8 June 2013 |url-status= live }}</ref>