Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source

schwit1 (797399) writes Attorney General Eric Holder has decided against forcing a reporter for the New York Times to reveal the identity of a confidential source, according to a senior Justice Department official. The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed a CIA effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear weapons program. The government wanted Risen's testimony in the trial of a former CIA official, Jeffrey Sterling, accused of leaking classified information.

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[Frosty Piss]

More about Jeff Sterling here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

Re:Hope and change finally happening?

[davester666]

Um, no. They found out who the source was by going through all his internet traffic, accounts on web sites, logs of his phone calls, including audio of any call that happened to get routed outside of the US [which they all suddenly did once he became a target]. And they also broke into his house and searched it when he was away.

Re:James Risen vs James Rosen

[Mr. Slippery]

Luckily, he is James Risen from the New York Times... If he were James Rosen from Fox News...he would be labeled a criminal co-conspirator and flight risk by Eric Holder so that they could trace his phone calls and emails.

They snooped on Rosen. That's bad.

They snooped on Risen and threatened, repeatedly over the past six years, to lock him up. That's worse.

Both journalists were attempting to enable the American people to keep tabs on the U.S. government (supposedly "theirs", in reality owned by corporate interests and the security-industrial complex). Your partisan take on the matter is counter-factual.