, good morning. let s get an early start on your money this morning. futures and stocks, european stocks slightly higher right now. oil prices up about 1.5%. they ve been rising for the past few days. growing concern about the violence in iraq and how that s going to affect energy supplies. a pipeline in northern iraq was shut down earlier this year. so far, no other energy infrastructure has been affected, but still bears watching. microsoft fighting a government search warrant, and this could have big consequences for your privacy. the government is going after e-mails microsoft has stored at a facility in dublin, ireland, as part of a drug trafficking case, but microsoft says the warrant violates international law and user privacy. tech companies store information in data centers all over the world. this raises a lot of questions about physical borders when it
reporter: what launched the controversy was a leak investigation and an application for a government search warrant seeking information about his personal e-mails. the government used words like co-conspirator to describe him in an affidavit. he wasnhasn t been charged with anything. deciding a search warrant was necessary involved vetting the decision at the highest levels of the department including discussions with the attorney general. the statement said the department followed all applicable laws and a federal magistrate judge made an independent finding that probable cause existed to approve the search warrant. it s a new worry for advocates of media freedom. it kind of changes the nature of what we ve been understanding about this situation. at first it looked like something that maybe one agent did. but when it gets approval of the attorney general, it suggests it s more of the justice department s policy. reporter: at his last news
at how much attention its reporter got from the justice department for a story that said north korea was going to test more nuclear weapons. so rosen, when are you going to jail? we re taking up a collection for the bail now. when are you going to jail? i m touched by your sentiments. but that s about all i would say. what launched the controversy was a leak investigation, and an application for a government search warrant seeking information about rosen s perm e-mails. the government used words such as, aider or abetter, or coconspirator to describe him in an affidavit. he hasn t been charged with anything. a justice department official confirmed friday that deciding a search warrant was necessary involved vetting the decision at the highest levels of the department, including discussion with the attorney general. the statement said the department followed all applicable laws, and a federal magistrate judge made an independent finding that probable cause existed to approve the s