Up to a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press have been targeted, in a massive U.S. government surveillance operation against the news service. <br /><br />AP is calling the monitoring network - created by the Justice Department itself - unprecedented in size and scope, and a gross violation of privacy. <br /><br />One consequence of this surveillance scandal is that whistleblowers will now think twice, before calling a news desk - that's according to investigative journalist and historian, Tony Gosling.
