Posted on 09/29/2004 12:43:10 AM PDT by kattracks
September 29, 2004 -- The Justice Department has charged that a veteran New York Times foreign correspondent warned an alleged terror-funding Islamic charity that the FBI was about to raid its office — potentially endangering the lives of federal agents.The stunning accusation was disclosed yesterday in legal papers related to a lawsuit the Times filed in Manhattan federal court.
The suit seeks to block subpoenas from the Justice Department for phone records of two of its Middle Eastern reporters — Philip Shenon and Judith Miller — as part of a probe to track down the leak.
The Times last night flatly denied the allegation.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago charged in court papers that Shenon blew the cover on the Dec. 14, 2001, raid of the Global Relief Foundation — the first charges of their kind under broad new investigatory powers given to the feds under the Patriot Act.
"It has been conclusively established that Global Relief Foundation learned of the search from reporter Philip Shenon of The New York Times," Fitzgerald said in an Aug. 7, 2002, letter to the Times' legal department.
He said he understood journalists' concerns about protecting the identities of their sources, but national security and preventing leaks that thwart probes into "terrorist fund-raising" trump such confidentiality.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Sunday Times is the weekly sermon: let us reinforce your world view, your sense of belonging to the Thinking Class, the Special Ones. Let the Red Staters spend Sunday morning in itchy church clothes at Perkins, dumping syrup all over their pancakes and yelling at little Lurleen not to pour salt down her baby brother’s jumper; you’re in your elegant spare little apartment with a cup of coffee (frothed on top; sprinkle of nutmeg) and a pastry from that wonderful place around the corner (okay, it’s an Au Bon Pain – hell, they’re all Bon Pain now) and there’s some light jazz on the radio. Morning jazz, if you had to give the genre a name. Anyway, it’s a sunny fall morning – well, noonish. Now comes the capstone moment when you lay the slab of the Times in your lap and begin the autoposy of the week. Scan the A section headlines - yes, yes, yes, appalling. Scan the metro: your eyes glaze. The arts section – later. Travel – Greece again? Good for Greece. Six pounds of classifieds: discard. No comics . . . there was always comics on Sunday back home. But that was IOWA, for heaven’s sake, what else would you expect but Blondie and Ziggy and the rest . . . ah.
The Magazine.
That's how I read it, too.
She may be a witness, as in she may have information that aids the investigation (knowingly or UNknowingly) and may not be complicit in any wrongdoing.
I posited that was her role on yesterday's thread. I hope I'm right. I've always like Miller.
"Fitzgerald was hired to find out who gave Plame's identity to Novak (and perhaps Pincus and others).
If he does that AND THEN investigates other leaks which may have compromised national security, I'm all for it.
If he doesn't, but INSTEAD, pursues leaks which threaten the news sources of the leading liberal media, then I will conclude that this is a partisan witch hunt of the worst sort...and that all the liberal complaints about the low nature of the Bush Administration are true."
Have you seen one word quoted or attributed to Fitzgerald or anyone involved doing the investigation? Thus far I have not, now those who are being investigated seem to be doing all the talking.
"In another, but related matter, I saw that Kerry explained that he first voted for the $87 billion for Iraq because it was to be partially paid for by a rollback of tax cuts for the rich and included biddable contracts...and then changed his vote because these provisions were deleted from the final bill. If this is true, I might actually vote against Bush. I hope this issue is discussed in the debate.
I can't remember a time when I felt so bad about a Presidential election, when I felt both candidates were so unequal to dealing with the problems facing our country. I will vote for one or another because I must but I wish that my conscience would allow me to skip the whole shoddy business."
Are you just now getting the explanation about JFKerry's vote? I watched as Howard Dean, was all the rage as the primary races were heating up, and he was "anti-war". JFKerry need to show he was just as "anti-war" as Howard Dean, therefore he voted against the $87 billion and then claimed the reason he did was because it was not "partially paid for by a rollback of tax cuts for the rich and included biddable contracts". In a JFKerry world anybody making above $50,000 is RICH!
JFKerry will take what ever side at any given moment for his own political gain and then has a billion excuses for why he did what he did.
In a letter in August to Mr. Comey, two lawyers for The Times, Floyd Abrams and Kenneth W. Starr, wrote that the records the government seeks, for some 20 days in the fall of 2001, might reflect hundreds of communications between the reporters and their sources "on a vast array of vitally important and controversial matters."
I had not seen that. Thanks.
Judith Miller, is 100% american. She supported our war in iraq and supports our war on terror. The other guy, well, i'll bets it's him that leaked.
This investigation pre-dates the Wilson/Plame/Niger story. I have long theorized that the latter story was being investigated along other lines than conventional wisdom and now I think it is very possible it was an outgrowth of the Shenon investigation.
Its called TREASON!
Miller has been subpoened to testify before the grand jury in the Wilson/Plame leak. I have been wondering what she had to do with that case. It seems to all boil down to a liberal cabal withine the CIA who is leaking information to the NYT. Read the article that I posted from the WSJ.
"This TRAITOR pretends to work for the good of the US but stabs us in the back..."
The NYT may be headquartered in NY but is by no means a defacto supporter of the US, it's policies or it's President, unless of course that President is a democrat.
I know---I follow that investigation very closely. The WSJ article articulates what I've been posting for almost a year--my theory that there was a CIA faction (and factions in other departments like State and DoD) devoted to bringing down President Bush. Glad to see I'm not a kook. LOL (Just a girl with common sense and the brains God gave me)
You are probably correct. I didn't realize that this predated the Plame incident. Now I think that they are investigating Plame's reccommendation of her husband to investigate the Niger story as part of this investigation. It all fits, including Novak's silence on his subpoena. The investigation is really about the CIA. Maybe this is the truth about Tennet's resignation as well. He didn't control it.
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Exactly my thinking.
I have really been puzzelled by the Judith Miller connection, now it's obvious. No wonder they hate Ashcroft so much. What would happen to this investigation if Bush lost the election? Wow, the consequences could be unbelievable.
My thinking re Miller and the Plame business is that it goes to her beat being WMD.
I would love to know exactly what track they're going on.
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