Latest WH Scandal: DOJ Spied On Fox News Reporter

A little over a week ago, the AP reported that the Department of Justice seized a broad range of phone records from reporters in an unprecedented investigation into alleged sources.

Today, the Washington Post is reporting that DOJ’s seizure of AP’s records wasn’t the first time they’ve spied on reporters to track down their sources.

In 2010, James Rosen, a FOX News correspondent, was targeted in connection with a story he wrote on North Korean nuclear tests. The Department of Justice spied on Rosen’s private email accounts and tracked his key-card access into and out of the building to try and determine who his sources were.

The last few weeks have brought scandal after scandal for the Obama Administration and today’s story shows that it’s not likely to get better any time soon. This proves that seizing the AP’s phone records was not a singular response to “a very serious leak” as Eric Holder said last week in a press conference, but apparently a more common tactic than DOJ has let on.

What did Eric Holder know of this? Did he, like he said in the AP case, recuse himself?

Though questions linger, one thing is clear: spying on journalists’ private emails and tracking key-card access could be yet another scandal for the White House and DOJ in the weeks to come.