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IDENTITY THIEVES - OFTEN SOMEONE YOU KNOWFeb 10, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.comby Michael J. RossInternet users and other consumers who are worried that their online transactions put them at high risk for someone stealing their personal financial information, may gain some comfort from recent news that 72 percent of the thefts of confidential information, were done off-line. In fact, identity thieves obtained the bank or credit information on their victims from online sources in only 12 percent of the cases. So if these miscreants are not getting the bulk of stolen financial data from our Internet transactions, how exactly are they...

...Fitzgerald has subpoenaed at least five prominent reporters in his investigation of the leaked identity...[of] Plame. New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who did reporting on the story, but never wrote about it, is resisting. Ms. Miller has refused to testify even though one of her sources, I. Lewis Libby... has given her permission to talk.... The case was referred to Mr. Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago and a career prosecutor with a strong reputation for nonpartisan professionalism. In January, Mr. Fitzgerald asked administration officials to sign waivers of their rights to have confidential conversations. After seeking records of...