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Media move to quash subpoenas on CIA leak (Tim Russert subpoenaed)
Newsday ^ | 6.5.04

Posted on 06/04/2004 8:26:53 PM PDT by ambrose

Media move to quash subpoenas on CIA leak

BY TOM BRUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU

June 5, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Time magazine and NBC on Friday filed motions seeking to quash grand jury subpoenas issued last month to compel testimony from their reporters about whether Bush administration officials leaked the name of a covert CIA operative.

The motions, claiming reporters' privilege under the First Amendment, were filed under seal in U.S. District Court in Washington, Time and NBC said, and represent what many attorneys say could be an uphill battle because of unfavorable case law.

Time and NBC are fighting subpoenas issued May 21 by a Washington grand jury led by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago named six months ago to probe the leak last year of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak and other journalists.

Fitzgerald, seeking the identity of the leaker or leakers, wants to question Matthew Cooper of Time and Tim Russert of NBC's "Meet the Press," who reported on the leak.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cialeak; plamegate
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To: ambrose

and what about Novak?


21 posted on 06/04/2004 8:53:11 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: ambrose
The motions, claiming reporters' privilege under the First Amendment

The First Amendment says no such thing---but then again, some people think the Constitution gives them a right to murder when they feel like it.

22 posted on 06/04/2004 8:54:04 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: GraniteStateConservative

yes, but we also must fear what they might say. Bush didn't retain Sharp for nothing - who knows what schemes they could setup here against Bush.


23 posted on 06/04/2004 8:55:01 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: cardinal4

Her 'secret' identity as a C.I.A. employee was not a secret in Washington dinner circles. A 'leak' didn't have to come from someone in the White House, mere;y a liberal dnc servant doing his party's bidding in order to start a rumor and perhaps gin up a watergatesque empanelment for dnc political purposes. Wilson has been caught in more than one lie, so his credibility is about as good as Ayatollah Teddy's.


24 posted on 06/04/2004 8:56:20 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: ambrose

I'm also wondering - could Tenet be called to testify here?


25 posted on 06/04/2004 8:56:23 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: ambrose

Wouldn't Wilson's wife be an 'administration official,' and wouldn't the Wash Post's Pincus' wife also be an 'administration official' given that except for Congress and the Judiciary and their staffs- everybody with a government job, no matter who appointed them or when, is an 'administration official?'


26 posted on 06/04/2004 8:58:05 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: MHGinTN

exactly right. but the fact remains - they have a grand jury now.


27 posted on 06/04/2004 8:58:25 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Smartass; MeekOneGOP; potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; dixiechick2000; onyx


Media gets a reality check.


Interesting to watch coverage from now until Nov.


Let's see if any want to get tossed in the slammer like that leftie bimbo wanna-bee writer who claimed that made her a journalist.



28 posted on 06/04/2004 8:59:47 PM PDT by devolve (````````````````` [..........................Hello from Sunny South Florida.........................)
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To: TomGuy
This Time cover from last October is a tribute to media hysteria about this much-ado-about-Wilson-who-talks-about-his-sex-life-with-his-wife-to-the-press. Time "mag-rag" tried mightily to turn this into the "2nd coming of Watergate."

But then again, this is Time:


29 posted on 06/04/2004 9:01:28 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: swilhelm73
Who sent Wilson? His wife? His wife's boss who resigned after the story broke?

Not only "who?", but "why?"

What was the purpose of Wilson's mission to begin with? And was the purpose accomplished?

Presuming, of course, that the original purpose was not to undermine the President...

30 posted on 06/04/2004 9:01:37 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: devolve

Exactly.
Good points all.
I want to see Russert's reaction.
And Novak's.


31 posted on 06/04/2004 9:02:02 PM PDT by onyx
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To: ambrose

Well, the one named leaker was Plame herself; she leaked all over Wilson's pillow. And then Wilson leaked that information to Maureen Dowd.


32 posted on 06/04/2004 9:03:43 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: okie01
Well, I'm guessing the ultimate who is this guy;



But as for the person immediately responsible, unless Wilson changes his story that he doesn't know who sent him, we will never get proof. However, I still think Plame persuaded her superior. It makes sense seeing as this was his baliwick anyway.

And we all know the reason why...
33 posted on 06/04/2004 9:22:07 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: swilhelm73

You're right on all accounts.


34 posted on 06/04/2004 9:27:08 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ambrose

Who cares about the b*tch? Her husband made sure she was all over the papers? This is a non-starter, forget it, not worth the bandwidth to anybody except her creepy husband (kerry/lurch supporter). HAHAHAHAHA


35 posted on 06/04/2004 9:27:33 PM PDT by Ethyl
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To: ambrose
Then why did that troll Novak say "administration officials"?

That would include ex-Clinton Administration officials, right?

36 posted on 06/04/2004 9:38:46 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Any day you wake up is a good day.)
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To: TomGuy
It seems the libs have about milked the Abu Dabba Doo Prison dry, ...

Except for their latest "UN war crimes tribunal" angle. Their desperation increases daily.

37 posted on 06/04/2004 9:42:20 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Any day you wake up is a good day.)
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To: swilhelm73

Agreed. Novak is as much a "friend" of Bush's as is McCain and the rest of the RINO's.


38 posted on 06/04/2004 9:44:54 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Any day you wake up is a good day.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

I don't know. It seems to me the UN war crimes tribunal might be a threat from Kofi to lay off the oil for food investigations that seem to point right at Kofi's son...


39 posted on 06/04/2004 9:48:16 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: ambrose
With so many news organizations in on this leak, I am surprised the name of the leaker hasn't leaked out by now.

Unless it was Hitlery, in which case the leaker's "outer" could expect the live expectancy of James McDougal in a BC-approved Federal prison.

40 posted on 06/04/2004 9:50:38 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Any day you wake up is a good day.)
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