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NYT: U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:28:15 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Brad Malin <b.malin () vanderbilt edu> Date: August 2, 2006 2:15:42 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: NYT: U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records If I was going to be a confidential source, I would do so through an encrypted channel. -brad http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/washington/02phones.html U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records By ADAM LIPTAK Published: August 2, 2006A federal prosecutor may inspect the telephone records of two New York Times
reporters in an effort to identify their confidential sources, a federal appeals court in New York ruled yesterday.The 2-to-1 decision, from a court historically sympathetic to claims that journalists should be entitled to protect their sources, reversed a lower court and dealt a further setback to news organizations, which have lately
been on a losing streak in the federal courts.The dissenting judge said that the government had failed to demonstrate it truly needed the records and that efforts to obtain reporters’ phone records
could alter the way news gathering was conducted. <snip> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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