FBI Rebuffed on Reporter's Files (Jack Anderson)

[Canuckistanian]

Looks like the FBI tried to circumvent Jack Anderson's son Kevin (the official custodian of the papers) by trying to get Jack Anderson's elderly widow to release the papers...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041800961.html

Agents Seek Data on AIPAC Case and Classified Papers

The family of the late newspaper columnist Jack Anderson yesterday rejected a request by the FBI to turn over 50 years of files to agents who want to look for evidence in the prosecution of two pro-Israel lobbyists, as well as any classified documents Anderson had collected.

Kevin P. Anderson, son of the storied Washington-based writer, said the family is outraged at what it calls government overreaching and "a dangerous departure" from First Amendment press protections, a stance joined by academic and legal experts.

~snip

Kevin Anderson said FBI agents contacted the columnist's 78-year-old widow about a month after his death seeking access to his reporting materials. Agents subsequently contacted Mark Feldstein, an Anderson biographer who once worked for him and is now a George Washington University professor. Feldstein is helping to arrange the transfer of 188 cartons of material owned by the family from Brigham Young University to GWU.

~snip

Kevin Anderson said agents were "duplicitous" about their "true objective . . . to whitewash Jack Anderson's papers and attempt to remove from history embarrassing documents."

Someone's REALLY eager to get at those papers.

[wtbymark]

1. something bad on Poppy, Chimpy, Rummy or Darth Cheney

we should get a glimps of those papers

[Canuckistanian]

3. They'll eventually be released

It appears that somebody doesn't want that to happen.

Or are trying to prevent any possibility of it happening in the next, oh, say 5 months or so....

[blm]

5. National Securit Archives is at GWU - alot of IranContra and BCCI info

and documents are stored there.

I have no doubt there would be plenty of info in Anderson's files that add to the BFEE dots.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. I hope the Anderson family starts Xeroxing ASAP

If the Feds can't get to the papers, they'll likely be victims to an unexplained fire or flood disaster. Better to destroy the docs if they can't get them and re-classify.

[Canuckistanian]

4. I think they're safe

You think Jack Anderson wouldn't have envisioned this?