James Risen subpoenaed
And a different New York Times reporter writes about it.
A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to a reporter of The New York Times, apparently to try to force him to reveal his confidential sources for a 2006 book on the Central Intelligence Agency, one of the reporter’s lawyers said Thursday.The subpoena was delivered last week to the New York law firm that is representing the reporter, James Risen, and ordered him to appear before a grand jury in Alexandria, Va., on Feb. 7.
Mr. Risen’s lawyer, David N. Kelley, who was the United States attorney in Manhattan early in the Bush administration, said in an interview that the subpoena sought the source of information for a specific chapter of the book “State of War.”
The chapter asserted that the C.I.A. had unsuccessfully tried, beginning in the Clinton administration, to infiltrate Iran’s nuclear program. None of the material in that chapter appeared in The New York Times.
I don't know what (if any) shield laws will protect him from divulging his sources. (None? Judy Miller? No federal shield law, right?) But if there aren't any, I suppose it could be off to jail with him.
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Word for the wise, the book reveals that a CIA "bait" operation actually delivered to Iran completely useful plans for creating a nuclear bomb...the CIA "flaws" intended to render the plans unworkable were detected in one glance by a Russian courier scientist, and easily correctable by the Iranians. OOPS! I wonder who let that cat out of the bag?
This is a non sequiter, but in the 1980's the CIA supplied Iraq with sarin gas to use against Iranian troops. Then, during the Iraq-Iran war, some 5000 Kurds of Northern Iraq were gassed to death for which Saddam was blamed. However, studies found that the Kurds were killed by a cyanide-based gas, which Iran possessed and had actually used several times, not Iraq. Stephen C. Pelletiere, the CIA's senior political analyst on Iraq published an opinion piece on this in 2003. Check it out.
"We know they have plans for making a nuclear weapon! We have the receipts!"
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