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.
If my memory is correct, I think that the reason Fitzgerald was chosen to take over the Plame case was because of the work he was doing out of Chicago. I'm sure there are stories about what he was doing when the Plame matter began. I would look them up right now, but I don't have enough time.