How does the Kremlin or Tehran or Beijing top this? The last Democratic administration bugged the Washington bureau of the nation’s leading wire service, the Associated Press.
The AP operation was part of a larger press assault. The Obama-Biden team displayed little hesitancy in targeting journalists not only to find sources, but to make examples for any sources in waiting.
In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder approved the extensive intrusion into the AP’s daily reporter-source communications. He wanted to know who tipped off the wire service to a CIA operation that stopped an al Qaeda airplane bomb plot hatched in Yemen.