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 ...
why does this not surprise me. The NYT's hates America, hates Bush, Loves Dead soldiers. They are the scum of the earth, right alongside their buddies the Islamofascists.
That's what the FD wants to know. Their looking for a mole.
Good.
Then they should have no objection to turning over the phone records. They should be assisting in the war on terror instead of obstructing it.
By attempting to block the subpoena, the NY Times should be considered guilty until proven innocent. Their denial in the face of obstruction of justice rings hollow indeed.
The people of New York need to realize that their newspaper of record is a front for Al Queida. When they look at the empty skyline they should remember who is attempting to protect those who did this to us.
Remember that name.
Absolutely!!!
Everybody should know by now not to trust a damn reporter.
I wan't to know who in the criminal justice system told the reporter about the imminent raid.
Its time to put some teeth back into the meaning of the word TREASON.
Its time to put some teeth back into the meaning of the word TREASON.
No problem, there are soon to be openings over at CBS.
Great cross reference link. Thanks.
Clearly the NY Post is preferable to the despicable and subversive NY Times, but 'class' is not a word I'd associate with the Post...
My pleasure........seems to be more than one leak investigation going on.
Here's a tie-in:
bump
A guess: Miller had the contacts among the Islamists and/or within the FBI, as per her 1/01 series on Bin Laden/Al Qaeda, and passed the info/contacts onto Shenon.
At this point, I think it's more important to expose exactly who within the FBI and CIA are continually leaking classified info to the Times. After all, there's no mystery about the Times' agenda, and no one can seriously claim ignorance of what might be done with the information.
Another left wing fundamentalist!
That was my first thought when reading NYTimes, Judith Miller, Patrick Fitzgerald all in the same story. He is in process of grand jury investigation into the Plame thing. The NY Times published that crazy editorial the other day complaining about Fitzgerald questioning their reporters about the Plame leak. Me thinks these reporters have some 'splainin' to do.
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