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Former CIA Officer Indicted for Disclosing National Defense Info to Reporter
No, this has nothing to do with wikileaks as such. But you may recall a case from a few years ago involving a CIA officer who attempted to sue the agency for discrimination, only to have the case...
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Move to Quash Risen Subpoeana
The invaluable Steve Aftergood, over at Secrecy News, is reporting: Attorneys for New York Times reporter James Risen yesterday asked a court to quash a subpoena requiring him to testify in the case of...
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Washingtonian Profile of DOJ Leaks Prosecutor
Shane Harris of Washingtonian magazine has a lengthy profile on the magazine’s web site of William Welch, who is the Justice Department’s point man on leaks cases. It’s a hard-hitting and unflattering...
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Brinkema Opinion Sparing Risen from Testifying that Sterling was his Source
Here is the July 29 opinion in which Judge Brinkema explains why NYT reporter James Risen will not have to testify, in the Jeffrey Sterling leak prosecution, about whether Sterling was Risen’s source...
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An Explainer on the Espionage Act and the Third-Party Leak Prosecutions
The press scandals keep on coming for the Obama Administration. Hot on the heels of revelations that the administration subpoenaed the Associated Press’s phone records as part of a leak investigation,...
View ArticleJames Risen Petitions For Rehearing En Banc, Media File Amicus Brief in the...
Here’s the New York Times reporter’s petition for rehearing en banc in the case of United States v. Sterling. It was filed yesterday. Readers will recall that last month a three-judge panel of the...
View ArticleFourth Circuit: No Rehearing En Banc in U.S. v. Sterling
Here’s the Fourth Circuit’s order denying two petitions for rehearing en banc—-one by New York Times reporter James Risen, the other by former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling. This past summer, a panel...
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