[privacy] Scare Tactics: New York Times Reporter Subpoenaed Over Source for Book

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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 reporter’s
lawyers said Thursday.

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. 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.

[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


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