was dismissed about four hours after those letters became public. her name is on those letters that went out. she was meeting with white house counsel. eric: i could do a whole show on each one of scandals. department of justice looking into phone records of both the a.p. and fox and could be as many as several hundred phone linings. you can t think this is okay, this is not okay. this is an overreach? yeah, gosh, in the case of james rosen, the idea that he is just asking for information. they cite him for trying to persuade a source at the state department to give him information. i would be in there and i think a whole bunch of people would be in jailing. a.p. story is a little different. i think a.p. made big mistakes and the government was trying to protect a double agent saudi
records, including his family s, subpoenaed. think about this. why didn t they follow the guidelines where they notify the news organization toss have a voluntary discussion? why? were they afraid james was going to destroy these records? james didn t have these records, the phone company had the records. so they sort of there s sort of an attitude about this that makes me suspicious. you know, it comes on the heels of reports, of course, they went after the a.p. reporters to find out what calls were coming through, where they were coming from, e-mails, that sort of thing, but there is sort of a focus on stories that aren t necessarily making them look good. in other words, any of the stuff that was revealed when it came to finding and hunting down osama bin laden, you know secrets were revealed and sources were compromised in that one, but that got a pass. not so that makes the administration maybe look bad. look at the a.p. story. if you go back to may of 2012
they re afraid of being tracked. greta joins us. it is getting weird, greta. i can t blame your friends, contacts wanting to avoid any contact with you for fear of being watched. it s even weirder than that. it s not just the justice department going after our phone records. take the fact that the state department last october had a media wide conference call on benghazi and left fox off it. . they ratted out the state department that we weren t on it. they said it was inadvertent. a few weeks later the cia gives a media wide briefing about benghazi and who wasn t invited? fox wasn t invited. so we ve got the state department and the cia both keeping us out of the loop or trying to on a story we re aggressively investigating, benghazi. now we ve got james rosen s
his movements. marco rubio issued a statement that he is concerned that a obama administration targeted a fox news reporter for prosecution for doing who is normal with news gathering protected by the first amendment. we have a fox legal analyst. brit, you were on with martha earlier and this is the angle you raised and not unusual to see the doj interested when something like national security is leaked to a reporter. but what is unusual is to go to court and suggest that that reporter is a criminal. that s what happened here. an fbi agent filed with the court which is the basis of this story. it is 36 pages long and describes the activity of the person suspected to be a leaker
problem. it s a perfect storm in there right now and those jobs are very difficult and there are a lot of things that make them even more difficult. but former vice president cheney said that they re lying in the administration. do you think that s overly harsh? do you think we know that that s true? he may know something i don t know. all i know is that the story has changed repeatedly on benghazi. i don t know anything about the a.p. story. it seems to me until we have some sense of that, we can t even begin to make a judgment. but i think people looking at the changed stories on benghazi and the way the talking points were altered are of a view that they were trying to support a narrative that in fact did not exi