PRESSGATE: AP IN YEMEN--NAMEBASE--

TO: DIR
FROM: SPECIAL BRANCH
SUBJ: NAMEBASE SEARCH//AP-YEMEN:


NAMES FOUND IN GOOGLE SEARCH RELATED TO ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLES ORIGINATING FROM YEMEN (AND NEARBY BUREAUS):


AHMED AL-HAJ        
SARAH EL DEEB
HANI MOHAMMED
MAGGIE MICHAEL (CAIRO)
BEN HUBBARD
AYA BATRAWY
OSAMA ALFITORY
ESAM MOHAMED
MAGGIE FICK
LEE KEATH
HAMZA HENDAWI
KHALIL HAMRA
JOSEPH FEDERMAN (JERUSALEM)
PAUL SCHEMM
MATTHEW LEE (DC)

APPARENTLY, IT IS A CLOSELY KNIT AP GROUP WITH HQ IN CAIRO THAT HAS SENT OUT THE INFO NOT JUST ON THE YEMEN SIDE OF TERROR , BUT ALSO AT THE FRONT OF THE BENGHAZI CONSULATE ATTACK STORY; WITH EMPHASIS ON THE ANTI-MUSLIM VID DONE BY SAM BACILE.


AL-HAJ INTERPRETATION OF THE BENGHAZI CONSULATE ATTACK ON 9/11/2012 COMES UNDER REVIEW:

By Tom Blumer | October 11, 2012 | 09:20The Associated Press, after an initial acknowledgment in a Tuesday evening timeline from Bradley Klapper, has consistently failed in several subsequent reports to cite State Department officials' unmistakable assertion that there were no protests whatsoever at the Benghazi, Libya U.S. consulate on September 11 before the lethal terrorist attack which killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Instead, later reports create the impression that protests did occur.

It's even getting carried into coverage of different events. In his story (link is to early paragraphs of original version) about the Thursday morning murder of a security official at the U.S. embassy in Yemen, the AP's Ahmed Al Haj (identified as the reporter in the item I originally saw, since revised) betrayed the wire service's uninterrupted obsession with "an anti-Islam video," and wrote as if nothing learned in the past two days has any validity (bolds are mine throughout this post):

BE ADVISED A NUMBER OF THESE NAMES ARE ALSO RELATED TO DETAILS SURROUNDING THE BENGHAZI ATTACK...WHICH MAY BE ANOTHER REASON WHY THE DOJ IS ANXIOUS TO PREVIEW THE PHONE RECORDS...


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TLO: DIR
FROM: SPECIAL BRANCH
SUBJ: LEAKED DOCS REGARDS YEMEN BOMB PLOT, MAY, 2012


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, LONG THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NEWS GATHERING ORGANIZATION IN RECENT TIMES, RIVALLED ONLY BY AFP AND A FEW OTHERS, NOW HAS ITS OWN GROUP AS THE FOCUS OF A MAJOR NEWS STORY.

OBVIOUSLY, THE SEIZURE OF THE PHONE RECORDS DATING APPROX APRIL-JUNE, 2012 OF REPORTERS & EDITOR WILL LEAD TO DETERMINATION AS TO HOW THE INFO WAS LEAKED; REVIEW OF AP BD DIRECTORS BELOW:

AP BOARD OF DIRS:

Mary Junck – Chairman //Lee Enterprises, Inc.
Jon Rust– Vice Chairman//Southeast Missourian //Rust Communications
Donna J. Barrett //Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
Richard A Boehne //The E.W. Scripps Company
Elizabeth Brenner //The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel //Journal Communications, Inc.
Robert Brown //Swift Communications
William Stacey Cowles//The Spokesman-Review//Cowles Publishing Co.
Terry J. Kroeger //BH Media Group //The Omaha World-Herald
Robin McKinney Martin //The Santa Fe New Mexican and The Taos News
Gracia C. Martore //Gannet Co., Inc.
Jim M. Moroney III //The Dallas Morning News
William O. Nutting //The Ogden Newspapers Inc.
David M. Paxton //Paxton Media Group
Charles V. Pittman //Schurz Communications Inc.

Dunia Shive//Belo Corporation

Steven R. Swartz// Hearst Corporation
Paul C. Tash// Times Publishing Company

Katharine Weymouth//The Washington Post

THE TASK TO DISOWN THE RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH THE ABOVE AND SOMEWHERE IN THIS NAMEBASE, THE ORDERS WERE GIVEN TO MAKE THE CALLS NECESSARY TO PUT SOMEBODY IN THE GOVERNMENT ON THE SPOT TO FESS UP INFORMATION CONCERNING THE BOMB PLOT.

THE DOJ & PRESS-GATE

TO: MEDIA
FROM: SPECIAL BRANCH
SUBJ: US DEPT OF JUSTICE SEIZURE OF ASSOCITAED PRESS DOCUMENTS

WITH CURIOUS INTEREST, THE BRANCH NOW DECIDES TO EXAMINE THE BREAKING NEWS STORY ACROSS THE P0ND REGARDING THE ACTIVITY OF THE US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND ITS ACQUISITION OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRIVILEGED FILES.

HERE IS WHAT RAF SANCHEZ REPORTS TO THE TELEGRAPH UK:

"

In what was described as "a massive and unprecedented intrusion" into press freedom, the US Justice Department seized details of incoming and outgoing calls on more than 20 phone lines belonging to America's foremost news agency.

Although investigators are not believed to have tapped the phone lines, the information would allow them to trace confidential government sources contacted by reporters.

The government obtained two months worth of records from phones in AP's Washington, New York and Connecticut offices as well as its bureau in the US House of Representatives. "

THE CASE IN PARTICULAR:

"The news agency disclosed in May 2012 that US intelligence, aided by Britain and Saudi Arabia, had prevented al-Qaeda from putting a suicide bomber onto a US-bound airliner.

AP initially held back on reporting the story while the CIA operation was ongoing but refused to comply with Obama administration requests to let the government officially break the news of its success in a press conference.

Five reporters and one editor involved in the story had their phone records seized by the Justice Department. "


WILL BE FOLLOWING THIS STORY CLOSELY...