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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. Justice in the U.S.A by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It increasingly seems like the American concept of justice is about punishing those who seek to show the evil the country does (Though in evil alone it is not). Thank God this decision has some sense in it. Now if only more of the Christians stopped focusing on the evangelising and crusading and trying to force their beliefs on others and instead started remembering that Moses said "Though shalt not kill" and that Jesus preached Peace and Love and said "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone."

    Nero played the violin as Rome burned.It seems he was not the only leader intent on burning his nation and its people. You cannot have Freedom and Free will when everything you are doing is being watched - that is the domain of the omniscient God. Love and intimacy require privacy. We already each have a number. Raise not the Beast. (And to all nations we are cousins and neighbours, love each other and forgive each other's sins. We may all have different beliefs and hopes and dreams but the truest infidel is the man who walks the path of violence.)

    Peace be upon all. I dream of the time when all faiths consider JeruSALEM the city of peace. War is the domain of Satan. Knowing truth is knowing God. The mission of Science is Truth.