Every Word That Comes from Their Mouths Is a Lie including "And" and "The" -- Dorothy Parker (I Think)

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

'It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,' the source told us in an in-person conversation.

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.

Unless Osama bin Laden works for ABC News, the New York Times, or the Washington Post, I think the CIA is wasting its time and resources.

I cannot tell you how sick it makes me to think that the government is spying on its citizens.

When I was a kid, they use to tell us that this kind of thing only happened in the Soviet Union, and they would say it in a way that suggested we should be happier and prouder to be Americans to hear it.

We weren't. At the time, our government was run by Tricky Dick Nixon and Henry "Kiss this, bitches" Kissenger. We treated anyone bearing their standard -- even in the Cold War -- suspiciously, and doubted everything that came from their mouths. Little did we know that a president and cabinet would come along that would raise the bar on lying to the public to such a standard that Tricky Dick and Kiss This would look like George Washington and Abe Lincoln by comparison.

Yeah. "We're doing this to catch terrorists," my ass.