If you can flatly accept the proposition that the cover story is true, then the logic here holds some water. However, this assume that the FBI had absolutely nothing on anyone with the ability to leak. It makes a lot more sense to me to gather all the phone and travel information you can on that group since they are obligated to comply if they have clearances.
Again, assuming the cover story, deciding to look at all the calls going to/from several news offices can only be total desperation. If there were calls from investigated parties going to AP or reporter personal phones, they'd have been found without having to get AP's phone records. So now they're going to look at every call at AP to see who was involved and spread the dragnet to all of them? Doesn't seem very feasible direction to take because the leak could have been in person, email, letter, txt msg, or VoIP call - all paths that AP phone records ignore.
If you have any cynicism about this, it's just as plausible that there is something else of interest to investigators in the AP phone records and this story was made up to provide some cover. The data they gathered can be misused in limitless ways by the powers that be... while it's highly unlikely to identify any leak source.
Bombs! Airplanes crashing! Al Qaeda!... stir and serve to get immediate public buy-in. By the way, how many people bought into the yellow cake story?
I didn't believe that nonsense story back under dubya and given the current administration's record of attacking whistle-blowers, I don't buy this one either.
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