TIMESMAN TIPPED OFF TERROR CHARITY: FEDS (NY Times Correspondent Accused)

New York Post ^ | 9/29/04 | CARL CAMPANILE

[McGavin999]

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.

Hmmmmmm. Wonder if this is what the grand jury is looking into. Who was their source and what other information has been divulged?

[Eva]

Here is the original thread. Unfortunately, it is just an exerpt and the article is no longer available through normal sources. We need Lexis Nexis or something. Kattracks has access if we can rouse him. He hasn't been very active lately.

[PilloryHillary]

Bump!

[hlmencken3]

I agree.

Unfortunately, the FBI (and the CIA) seem staffed out of the same secretarial pool as the NYT and CNN.

[ArmyBratproud]

Thanks.

[Plutarch]

Well New York Times, which is it going to be?

The term Fourth Estate refers to the press, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle.

Fifth Column refers to any clandestine group of people which works covertly inside a nation to undermine its strength (psychological warfare) while the nation is simultaneously suffering an overt attack by a foreign power or another faction in a civil war.

The term was coined by General Emilio Mola in a radio address during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). As a Nationalist general, he sent four army columns to capture Madrid, which was being defended at that time by the Republican forces. The general referred to his hidden supporters inside the capital as his fifth column. The term caught on after the address was widely reported by international media.