CNN News:美联社质疑政府秘密获取记者电话记录

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A terrorist plot, leaked information, secret record-gathering-and that's just the first story on this Wednesday's show.

Hi, everyone.

I'm Carl Azuz.

This story involves a news organization and the U.S. Justice Department.

The Associated Press says the government agency secretly collected two months of telephone records from AP employees.

The president of the AP said, quote,

"These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know."

The AP reported that the government hasn't said why it wanted the records,

but officials said they were looking into how details of a foiled bomb plot were leaked last year.

Attorney General Eric Holder runs the U.S. Justice Department.

He says he wasn't involved in the decision to collect phone records,

but he said the leak put the American people at risk.

Trying to determine who's responsible for it required,

in his words, "very aggressive action."

You know that the U.S. has freedom of the press.

It's in "The Constitution."

But that freedom doesn't necessarily cover everything the press does.

CNN legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin says there's no law that allows reporters to protect their sources.

Toobin says what the U.S. Justice Department did was legal,

but it's also farther than any presidential administration has gone before.

Just the Facts-Bangladesh is a country in Southern Asia.

It's home to more than 160 million people.

The country struggles with poverty, overpopulation and political instability.

But its economy has been growing in recent years.

Its garment industry makes up nearly 80 percent of the country's exports.

The people who make those clothes do so at a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the salary of what it takes to make them in the US.

Minimum wage in Bangladesh, less than $40 a month.

A recent tragedy has brought a lot of attention to the bad conditions that many Bangladeshis work in.

A day after cracks appeared in a nine story building near Bangladesh's capital,

employees of its garment factories were told to come to work anyway.

When the building collapsed on April 24th, more than 1,100 people were killed.