It has begun, this is but a small taste of what we have to look forward too, well this grand experiment was nice while it lasted.

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

“It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation.

ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.

Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.

One former official was asked to sign a document stating he was not a confidential source for New York Times reporter James Risen.

Our reports on the CIA’s secret prisons in Romania and Poland were known to have upset CIA officials. The CIA asked for an FBI investigation of leaks of classified information following those reports.

People questioned by the FBI about leaks of intelligence information say the CIA was also disturbed by ABC News reports that revealed the use of CIA predator missiles inside Pakistan.

Under Bush Administration guidelines, it is not considered illegal for the government to keep track of numbers dialed by phone customers.

The official who warned ABC News said there was no indication our phones were being tapped so the content of the conversation could be recorded.

A pattern of phone calls from a reporter, however, could provide valuable clues for leak investigators.

from here.

If even half of this is true we are so fucked its not even funny. This is every ACLU nightmare I have ever had wrapped into one. The government is using its power to not only stifle free speech, but to find “dissidents” who are “against the party line.” Well “comrades” it was only a matter of time. Lets hope this pathetic excuse for a media will get up off its ass and do something for once. They have the power, why not use it. Lets start some undercover expose shit up in this piece. How about a little muck raking for gods sake. I guess if no one in the administration is getting blow jobs it just isn’t news. FUCK!!! I am so angry, all I wanted was a little freedom, and maybe some civil rights, but NOOOO that seems just a little too hard.

Instead I am presented with this stupid fuck-wit of a president whom I voted against (TWICE!). He has an approval rating below 30% and STILL nothing seems to be getting done about the constant law breaking and fuck-wittery. All because the Republicans are more loyal to there jobs than the people they are supposed to be representing, and the Democrats are a bunch of placated numb skulls.

Please please please! For the love of all that is good and decent vote this party, and this president out of office in the mid-term elections. Vote for anyone that claims to have even the slightest interest in freedom, civil rights, impeaching the president, the environment. Please!