Dorgan Calls for Inquiry Into Journalists’ Access

[kerrygoddess]

Dorgan Calls for Inquiry Into Journalists’ Access
October 26th, 2005

On the heals of the PlameGate investigation and Judy Miller’s claim that she had “”security clearance” during her assignment with a military unit in Iraq in 2003,” Senator Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota said Tuesday that he would “ask the Pentagon inspector general to investigate why journalists are allowed to have temporary access to classified information while they are assigned to military units in overseas operations.”

In remarks on the Senate floor, Mr. Dorgan said, “What kind of clearance would that reporter have to see classified or secret information?”

In an interview last week, Ms. Miller said that in her account in The Times of her role in the C.I.A. leak case, she imprecisely described the rules covering her assignment in Iraq. Ms. Miller said that she did what dozens of other journalists covering the war did: sign a written agreement called a “nondisclosure form” that allows reporters to see and hear classified information but treat it as off the record.

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[Robert Oak]

1. dorgan for pres.

He does just great stuff, over and over..

this one is like duh, they are a journalist, their job is to report
information...therefore if something is a secret, gee wiz I guess
they shouldn't see it.