Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The revelation last week that the Justice Department was spying on a Fox News reporter provoked a response of shock and outrage from the network.
Turns out, the news shouldn’t have been all that surprising.
The Washington Post reports that federal prosecutors alerted Rosen by email and sent a certified letter to Fox’s parent company in 2010.
“The government provided notification of those subpoenas nearly three years ago by certified mail, facsimile, and e-mail,” according to the law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing.
News Corps. denies ever receiving a notice.
“We do not have a record of ever having received it,” a company spokesman told The Post.
