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Embassy in moscow. russias foreign ministry ordered him to leave that country. both the cia and state department have not commented on the incident. lets go to david ignatius on this. david, strange that a kroichlt office cia officer, if he is that would be carrying around a written type contract that he is recruiting a russian agent. what do you make of all of this? >> it does look like bad trade craft as they say in the spy business. we have all read so many spy novels that when a real spy cas...

And the other thing is the i.g. basically cast this as a bureaucrat snafu, a short cut they took to try to deal with a huge case load. but if youre trying to reduce the amount of work you have to do, why would you keep putting out these letters that generate hundreds, if not thousands, of pages in responses. it just doesnt quite add up. >> yeah. david ignatius, it doesnt seem to add up. a bureaucrat snafu it seems to be more than that. what are you looking for in the coming days and weeks and wh...

Over the years. >> as a sign of how this effects the real world of journalism, i got an e-mail last night from an former intelligence source who said i hope youre using nokia burner fons that you throw away after a month. this case shows how vulnerable phone records are. what is interesting to me about this case is in its zeal for prosecuting leaks and this administration has been strangely because its a liberal administration in many ways, especially zealous in that prosecution, the administrat...

Jetliner. >> reporter: the a.p. says the government obtained logs of calls of more than 20 phone lines last april and may including some home and cell numbers and the general switchboard lines of its offices in new york, washington, and hartford, connecticut. >> more than a hundred journalists for the a.p. work at the places whose phone numbers and phone records were -- were seized by the justice department. >> reporter: attorney general eric holder said that he was not involved in the decision ...

Risk and infuriated one of our closest allies who was running the agent, this country was said to have been appalled and so the administration officials on their back feet being accused of having leaked the informatithem think, jumped into this very zealous investigation and the background people should understand. it was not a trivial case they were concerned about. it was a case involving peoples lives. >> mike barnicle, the story im talking about back in 2005 revealed all of the allies that w...

Barack obama and others lauded that report and got a pulitzer prize and i think this is what reporters do. i said some very tough words about the reporter. should it have been revealed? but this is how its usually approached. but what is surprising here for the attorney general to say americans lives were at risk because of a report a foiled plot, it just isnt consistent with what we have seen coming out of reporters for "the washington post" and the "the new york times" and the "the wall street...

Lisa, what we do know about the associated press story thus far is that national security was involved. we understand that the attorney general says lives were potentially at risk. american lives were at risk. but he also know that the associated press held the story at the request of the administration the administration seems to be putting a lot of effort into keeping a good distance from the irs story and the a.p. story from encroaching into the oval office. do we know whether or not the pres...

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