AP Prez Blasts DOJ for 'Unconstitutional' Actions

Associated Press president and CEO Gary Pruitt told CBS’s “Face The Nation” on Sunday that the DOJ’s secret seizure of two months of phone records was “unconstitutional.”

In his first television appearance since the subpoena was revealed, Pruitt, who worked as a First Amendment lawyer earlier in his career, blasted the Justice Department, saying the First Amendment rights of the AP had been violated.

“And so now they possess the phone records of thousands– thousands of news gathering phone calls of the Associated Press, and they are required to narrow– under their own rules, they are required to narrow these– this request as narrowly as possible, so as to not tread upon the– the First Amendment.

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