presstv.com According to the Center for Public Integrity, what’s described as a senior ABC news journalist in the mid 1990-s after the Oklahoma city bombing offered information to the FBI that a quote Saudi Arabian intelligence service advised that the bombing was sponsored by the Iraqi Special Services who used 7 former Afghan freedom fighters based in Pakistan to blow up the Murrow building. The information from confidential sources was wrong, it was a domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh who did it, but the journalist, says the center, was then turned into a mole at ABC, providing information to the FBI … That’s a major violation of Journalism ethics and against the FBI-s own rules about dealing with journalists. ABC is responding they don’t know who it was, but that whoever it was they no longer work for ABC. In another case, an Associated Press reporter’s personal mail was spied upon right before 9-11 by the FBI in relation to the reporter’s investigation about corruption of a US lawmaker. The FBI says the reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press can look at personal mail but by its own rules must inform the person his personal communication is being examined— and that wasn’t done. An FBI spokesman says there are strict rules in place to govern the handling of reporters which include not using them as sources of information for FBI investigations. On Capitol Hill FBI Director Mueller said…. The reports raise serious questions about FBI spying on reporters …
