FBI Seeks to Seize Control of deceased Journo J Anderson/Interview

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Democracy Now! April 26, 2006

FBI Seeks to Seize Control of Files of Deceased Investigative Journalist Jack Anderson

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FBI agents last month sought to sift through the files of the late muckracking journalist Jack Anderson to take back those it deemed classified over concern they could hurt U.S. interests. We speak Jack Anderson's son, Kevin, as well as George Washington University journalism professor, Mark Feldstein.
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FBI agents last month sought to sift through the files of the late muckracking journalist Jack Anderson. The agents approached the Anderson family and Mark Feldstein who is a former intern of Anderson and is writing a book about the columnist and his investigations during the Nixon years. The FBI agents initially told the family and Feldstein that they were looking for files related to the AIPAC espionage case. Both Feldstein and the Anderson family have refused to allow the agents access to Anderson's documents which are housed at George Washington University. FBI spokesman, William Carter, said on Monday that the bureau will continue to try to gain access to Anderson's files before they are made public because it is concerned about classified documents that could hurt U.S interests.
For more on the case we are joined by two guests:


Mark Feldstein, director of the journalism program at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. For almost 20 years, Mark worked as an investigative correspondent at CNN, ABC News and NBC News. His book "Poisoning The Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture" will be published next year.
Kevin Anderson, the son of Jack Anderson. He is an attorney at the law firm, Fabian & Clendenin.


AMY GOODMAN: We're joined in our Washington studio by Mark Feldstein, the director of the journalism program at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. For almost 20 years, Mark worked as an investigative correspondent at CNN, ABC News and NBC News. His book Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture will be published next year. We’re also joined on the phone by Jack Anderson's son, Kevin Anderson, attorney with the law firm, Fabian & Clendenin. We invited an F.B.I. spokesperson to be on the program, but they declined. Mark Feldstein, I want to begin with you. Can you tell me what originally happened? How did the F.B.I. approach you?

[Tuesday_Morning]

1. His family is serious...

AMY GOODMAN: And what are your plans right now? I mean, the F.B.I. is demanding this. You've given them over to George Washington University.

KEVIN ANDERSON: The family has gathered and met and talked about it, and we are unanimously opposed to turning these papers over to the F.B.I., to the point that my 79-year-old mother, myself, and I think all of my siblings are willing, if necessary, to go to jail, you know, if it gets to that point. If there were some type of a contempt of court order, we would continue to resist to that point.

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2. yes, they are-heard him this morning