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.

Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.

Well we now know one thing they're doing with the records. It's not basic pattern stuff, this is targeted to stop the press.

Phone Records used to stop ABC News