justice department regulations in terms of it being a last resort. they said that they did more than 500 interviews, reviewed tens of thousands of pages of documents before they decided that, no, they really, really needed to look at these a.p. reporters phone records. obviously you don t find that persuasive enough. do you want more of an explanation, or do you want some further kind of recourse beyond explanation? well, there s two things. first, on that. it s not necessarily that we don t take them at their word that they did a lot, but a judge should be reviewing that. they shouldn t be deciding for themselves when it s time to interfear with the news-gathering acists. without a national media shield law though under the regulations, if they had been given notice to a.p., a.p. could have gotten a judge to review. that s what happened in other cases. there was a case involving phil sheehan, a new york times reporter and judy milner 2001 where there was an allegation that