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Re: [privacy] Scare Tactics: New York Times Reporter Subpoenaed Over Source for Book
From: Rob Thompson <my.security.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:09:28 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Ferguson wrote: | Via The New York Times. | | [snip] | | 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 reporters | lawyers said Thursday. Should have released the book as fiction... | | The subpoena was delivered last week to the New York law firm that is | representing the reporter, James Risen, and ordered him to appear before a | grand jury in Alexandria, Va., on Feb. 7. | | Mr. Risens 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 Irans nuclear program. None of | the material in that chapter appeared in The New York Times. | | [snip] | | More: | http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/washington/01inquire.html | | Note: As many of you may already know, James Risen and Eric | Lichtblau were the New York Times reporters that originally broke | the story on the illegal NSA wiretapping in December 2005: | | http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html | | - ferg | | - -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson ~ Engineering Architecture for the Internet ~ fergdawg(at)netzero.net ~ ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy - -- Rob +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | _ | | ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) | | - against HTML email X | | / \ | | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkelFEgACgkQcfN68iZZIceP0ACg0bPHrdvUVo2GjSz/10ZRhFFM urkAn1ul4LLALogo1ws5tLFwAdddjnwc =qiTW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] Scare Tactics: New York Times Reporter Subpoenaed Over Source for Book Paul Ferguson (Jan 31)
- Re: [privacy] Scare Tactics: New York Times Reporter Subpoenaed Over Source for Book Rob Thompson (Feb 02)