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, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Department … Read more »
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with these thoughts on the AP subpoenas controversy and background law:
In light of the hysteria over reports that the Department of Justice
It’s been a rough week for the Obama Administration. In addition to outrage over IRS targeting of conservative groups and continued conspiratorial rumblings about the Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack, the Department of Justice (DOJ) faces blowback over subpoenas… Read more »
So we learn from this Associated Press story. It hints that the records’ acquisition may stem from a DOJ inquiry into the disclosure, last year, of classified material to the AP—regarding the CIA’s disruption of an AQAP effort to … Read more »
Paul makes a good point that digital technology and data analytics make it easier for the government to track journalists’ movements and ascertain the persons in government with whom they communicate. Charlie Savage makes the same point in his story… Read more »
One item in Jack’s post on the upcoming leak investigations caught my eye — he noted that “It is hard to discover leakers without access to journalists’ testimony or notes (which are hard to obtain).”
My sense is that … Read more »
The New York Times and columnists Charlie Savage and Scott Shane have filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act against the Department of Justice for access to the OLC memo authorizing the targeted killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi.
Read the … Read more »
The Keynote Address begins with a brief introduction from Jack. He notes that one thing extraordinary about Savage is his ability to extract information from government officials and the clarity with which he can describe and discuss complicated legal issues. … Read more »
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 for Chapter 9 of State of War… Read more »
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 piece that suggests that Welch is over-aggressive and … Read more »
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 former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling
Friday, May 24, 2013
Coverage of President Obama’s speech yesterday is plentiful: Here are Peter Baker of the New York Times, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller of the Washington Post, and Mark Mazzetti of the Times with an analysis of the key points of the speech. Scott Wilson of the Post also provides a rundown of the speech, and cites Ben. The Associated Press reports on lifting the transfer ban on Yemeni detainees, and Colleen McCain Nelson, Adam Entous, and Julia E. Barnes… Read more »
