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

[Rob Thompson <my.security.lists () gmail com>]

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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
|
|

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~ Engineering Architecture for the Internet
~ fergdawg(at)netzero.net
~ ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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