Posted on 09/29/2004 1:16:11 AM PDT by publius1
The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago, is investigating a leak and has said he intends to seek the reporters' records from their phone companies. Mr. Fitzgerald contends that one or more government officials alerted the reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, to an imminent search of the offices of an Islamic charity. That disclosure, he has written to lawyers for The Times, was probably criminal...
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."
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Ken Starr? My God! Didn't the Times spend a good chunk of its resources in the 90's villifying him as the worst person since Torquemada?
"Trust Starr." - - quidam
Times Sues Prosecutor on Phone Records
Ken Starr is a good man; this is about the 1st Amendment for Starr; it's not about the New York Times. Ken Starr and Floyd Abrams also teamed up to argue against the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law before the lower federal courts and then the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, they lost, I think by 1 vote.
Interesting though, that when the Times needs legal help it turns to the man it used to portray, and not just on the editorial page, as an out of control right-wing whack-job.
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Check out the spin. The prosecutors aren't "critical of the paper's reporting". They're alleging the reporter tipped off their target.
On Fox now.
Fox noting Miller also subpoenaed in the Plame case, but reporter Rebecca Gomez called her Valerie "Plume".
LOL
~sigh~
David Asman comments "The New York Times has a mess on their hands".
I HATE HATE HATE the term "mess" being applied to scandals like they are things that "just happened" and now must be dealt with.
HATE IT
Judith Miller being involved in both investigations has me perplexed.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Plame works in counterproliferation unit of CIA
Perhaps the direction of the Plame investigation is not who leaked her wretched "name", but is she a source to reporters like, say, Judith Miller. (I am just theorizing here, of course.)
Note from the article:
The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago, is investigating a leak and has said he intends to seek the reporters' records from their phone companies. Mr. Fitzgerald contends that one or more government officials alerted the reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, to an imminent search of the offices of an Islamic charity. That disclosure, he has written to lawyers for The Times, was probably criminal.
So, according to what the New York Times says Fitzgerald wrote in his letter (naturally we can't trust the Times so need to see the letter ourselves, but for the sake of discussion we'll go by their representation) that not only of interest is Shenon tipping off the "charity", but the disclosure of the imminent search by "government officials" was "probably" a crime. Sooooooo, who were the government officials in that case. Did they continue to serve as sources for these reporters as the months and years went on?
excerpt:
First, the C.I.A. suspected that Aldrich Ames had given Mrs. Wilson's name (along with those of other spies) to the Russians before his espionage arrest in 1994. So her undercover security was undermined at that time, and she was brought back to Washington for safety reasons.
Second, as Mrs. Wilson rose in the agency, she was already in transition away from undercover work to management, and to liaison roles with other intelligence agencies. So this year, even before she was outed, she was moving away from "noc" — which means non-official cover, like pretending to be a business executive. After passing as an energy analyst for Brewster-Jennings & Associates, a C.I.A. front company, she was switching to a new cover as a State Department official, affording her diplomatic protection without having "C.I.A." stamped on her forehead.
~SNIP~
But keep in mind she did indeed write an internal memo at Langley recommending her lawfully wedded spouse to be sent off to Niger, there to sip tea and do who knows what (it wasn't investigating yellowcake except in the most cursory way).
My pleasure. ;)
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