(14 May 2013) SHOTLIST
New York - 13 May 2013
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1. Various shots of Associated Press logo
2. Wide shot of AP newsroom
3. Medium shot of AP worker on phone
4. Close-up of phone in AP newsroom
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kathleen Carroll, AP Senior Vice President - Executive Editor:
"On Friday, we got a notice from the Justice Department that they had seized the records of 20 of our telephone lines, work and personal lines belonging to AP journalists and connecting to AP bureaus in several locations."
FILE: Washington DC - 3 May 2010
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6. Various of the Department of Justice building
New York - 13 May 2013
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7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kathleen Carroll, AP Senior Vice President - Executive Editor:
"They haven't told us what they are looking for and nor have they explained why we got no prior notice, which our lawyers tell us that it's not only customary but required."
FILE: Langley, Virginia - 16 August 2011
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8. Wide pan of CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) headquarters
9. Zoom out of CIA seal on floor of headquarters
New York - 13 May 2013
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10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kathleen Carroll, AP Senior Vice President - Executive Editor:
"This is not a very narrow cast inquiry, it seems to be very broad and we don't really know what its about, since they haven't told us. It's one of the reasons that our CEO Gary Pruitt wrote such a strongly worded letter to the attorney general objecting to the broad nature and the unprecedented breath of this inquiry."
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11. Graphic map of Yemen and Somalia
STORYLINE
The Justice Department in the US secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press (AP), according to senior executives at the news cooperative.
The records listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters; for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Connecticut; and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.
In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012.
The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
"They haven't told us what they are looking for and nor have they explained why we got no prior notice, which our lawyers tell us that it's not only customary but required," said Kathleen Carroll, AP Senior Vice President - Executive Editor.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation.
He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.
The government would not say why it sought the records.
Officials have previously said in public testimony that the US Attorney General at the Department of Justice is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot.
The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.


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