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Embassy in moscow. russia's foreign ministry ordered him to leave that country. both the cia and state department have not commented on the incident. let's 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 case comes along like this our immediate reaction is, gee, that is just like in a novel but this is a...

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 you're 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 doesn't quite add up. >> yeah. david ignatius, it doesn't 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 what are you looking for out of this investigation? >> the irs scandal really is a case of, as the ...

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 you're 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 it's a liberal administration in many ways, especially zealous in that prosecution, the administration has overridden in some cases, in particular in this case, its own guidelines for how reporters...

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 to get the phone logs, having taken himself off the lead case last year to avoid the appearance of a...

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 i'm talking about back in 2005 revealed all of the allies that were helping us out in our effort to get information from al qaeda terrorists. again, it offended me...