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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. Story should have linked... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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  2. Re:Hope and change finally happening? by davester666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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