Government Using Illegal Phone Records To ID Media Leaks

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Sources are telling major news networks that the government is now going over phone records of reporters in an effort to identify who within the administration is leaking details of the NSA's illegal record search system to reporters.

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers Brian Ross and Richard Esposito call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation.

ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.

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