September 10, 2004
excerpts;
The FBI believes that a call from a reporter to a representative of the charity, the Illinois-based Global Relief Foundation, may have led to the destruction of documents there the night before the government's raid, according to findings by the Sept. 11 commission.
The subpoena seeks the phone records of two Times reporters, Philip Shenon and Judith Miller, according to the sources. Officials at the Times and in Fitzgerald's office refused to comment.
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So who leaked to these reporters that this raid was going down? It took place in December 2001.
TIMESMAN TIPPED OFF TERROR CHARITY: FEDS (NY Times Correspondent Accused)
9/29/04
excerpt:
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.
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And may I point out, that the "real" journalists in the media keep saying that Fitzgerald was going after who "outed Plame" and now is going after these Times reporters.
Note the date of this letter: August 2002 is almost a year before we were graced with hearing from Joseph Wilson about his trip Niger way. Therefore Fitzgerald was on the trail of leaks and media skullduggery before the Plame affair came on the scene.