NYT: U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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, 2006

A 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.

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