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NYT Reporter Subpoenaed
Yet another one:
A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to a reporter of The New York Times, apparently to try to force him to reveal his confidential sources for a 2006 book on the Central Intelligence Agency, one of the reporter’s lawyers said Thursday....Mr. Risen’s lawyer, David N. Kelley, who was the United States attorney in Manhattan early in the Bush administration, said in an interview that the subpoena sought the source of information for a specific chapter of the book “State of War.”
The chapter asserted that the C.I.A. had unsuccessfully tried, beginning in the Clinton administration, to infiltrate Iran’s nuclear program. None of the material in that chapter appeared in The New York Times....
Mr. Risen, who is based in Washington and specializes in intelligence issues, is the latest of several reporters to face subpoenas in leak investigations overseen by the Justice Department.





Comments (5)
Can't log in at the Cafe now!
Not with old password.
Nor with new nonsense password that works here!
Have to go to work now. So hoping this gets fixed eventually.
February 1, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
You'll be able to reclaim your old cafe username and password by the end of the day.
February 1, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gee, I thought all that unlimited spying powers they have, they wouldn't need a subpoena, or for that matter, any additional information.
I guess the one thing that limits their spying is incompetence.
February 1, 2008 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
We need a federal shield law.
February 1, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
So much for freedom of the press in a nation seeking to extend surveillence laws. Is that basically spying? www.ritawatson.com
February 1, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink