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

Posted by timothy on from the quite-munificent-of-him dept.

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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  1. My biggest fear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    My biggest fear is that Iran attacks us with nuclear weapons.... and the POTUS surrenders.

    1. Re: My biggest fear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Obama isn't actually trying that hard to be divisive. It's simply a natural consequence of getting elected as a liberal promising to do liberal things, then actually governing as a conservative, all the while being called too liberal by the conservatives while actual liberals know better.

      In other words, election remorse from the left and intellectual dishonesty from the right. Great formula for having nobody like you.

  2. James Risen vs James Rosen by srichard25 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Luckily, he is James Risen from the New York Times and he only tipped off terrorists to how they were being tracked, so the Obama administration sees no need to press him further. If he were James Rosen from Fox News trying to keep watch on our own government, then he would be labeled a criminal co-conspirator and flight risk by Eric Holder so that they could trace his phone calls and emails.

  3. Re:Justice in the U.S.A by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    The mission of Science is Truth.

    The mission of science is *fact*. Truth is the domain of the philosophers and the religious.

  4. Re:Hope and change finally happening? by magarity · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And they also broke into his house and searched it when he was away

    Well, he shouldn't have posted twitter that he just saw the cutest puppy at the mall pet shop.