the 'apology' just brings up

way more questions and concerns for me. so you cannot even work for a large respected newspaper and write about terrorism WITHOUT BEING A SUSPECT yourself? i can only imagine if one worked for a SMALLER news outlet

FBI Apologizes to Post, Times

Phone Records Were Breached

By Carrie Johnson

Washington Post Staff Writer
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III apologized to two newspaper editors yesterday for what he said was a recently uncovered breach of their reporters' phone records in the course of a national security investigation nearly four years ago. .....

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The Justice Department's inspector general, who is reviewing the bureau's procedures in such cases, uncovered lapses that allowed FBI agents in 2004 to obtain telephone records of Post staff writer Ellen Nakashima, who was based in Jakarta, Indonesia, at the time. The FBI also obtained telephone records of an Indonesian researcher in the paper's Jakarta bureau, Natasha Tampubolon.

Records of New York Times reporters Raymond Bonner and Jane Perlez, who worked in Jakarta in 2004, also were compromised, the Times confirmed yesterday.....

............At the time, the reporters were writing articles about Islamic terrorism in Southeast Asia.........