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Suburban lawmakers want answers in AP scandal

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Attorney General Eric Holder, during a news conference Tuesday, is questioned about the Justice Department secretly obtaining telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press.

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Editorial employees walk through the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York Tuesday. The Justice Department secretly obtained telephone records from April and May 2012 of reporters and editors for the AP in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

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Some suburban lawmakers are demanding an explanation of why the U.S. Department of Justice aggressively pursued phone records of Associated Press journalists last year. Illinois Republicans and Democrats alike joined the chorus of outrage Tuesday. "I am very concerned whenever I hear of any government secretly monitoring the press," said U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky.

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