Times Reporter Subpoenaed Over Source for Book

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Source: NYTimes

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.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/washington/01inquire.html?hp

[gateley]

1. Ask Karl Rove. He'd love to tell 'em.

Sounds like a good book!

[DCKit]

2. The maladministration blows the whole covert operation in 2002....

but they're going after someone who wrote a book AFTER THE FACT.

:wtf: :banghead: :hide:

[Pastiche423]

3. I hope

if it gets to trial, Mr. Risen knows how to say, "I don't recall".

[gratuitous]

4. A subpoena?

:rofl:

Just ignore it! Plead the Bush administration defense. Whatever it is, it enables a person to just ignore a subpoena, and there's no penalty (despite the fancy Latin word meaning "under penalty").