Posted on 08/13/2004 9:14:15 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
August 13, 2004 Times Reporter Is Subpoenaed in Leak Case By ADAM LIPTAK
Reporter for The New York Times, Judith Miller, was subpoenaed yesterday by a Washington grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a C.I.A. undercover officer to the syndicated columnist Robert Novak and other journalists.
The subpoena to Ms. Miller was only the most recent of a series issued to journalists in a politically sensitive inquiry that has on several occasions led investigators to question White House officials.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of The Times, said the paper would move to quash the subpoena to Ms. Miller, issued at the behest of Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor heading the investigation.
"We regret that the special prosecutor has chosen to issue a subpoena that seeks to compel Judy Miller to reveal her confidential sources," Mr. Sulzberger said. "Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions. Such subpoenas make it less likely that sources will be willing to talk candidly with reporters and ultimately it is the public that suffers.''
Lawyers for The Times said the paper expected that it would be served a separate subpoena for its records. They said the paper would fight that subpoena, too.
On Monday, a federal district judge in Washington held Time magazine and one of its reporters in contempt for refusing to identify their sources in the same case. The judge, Thomas F. Hogan, ordered the magazine to pay $1,000 a day and its reporter, Matthew Cooper, jailed until the sources were named. He suspended the sanctions pending the outcome of an appeal.
Judge Hogan will also hear The Times's motion to quash.
Mr. Novak was the first journalist to identify Valerie Plame as an undercover C.I.A. officer, in a column on July 14, 2003. Ms. Plame's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat, has asserted that the disclosure of her identity was retribution for his contention eight days earlier, in an Op-Ed article in The Times, that President Bush relied on discredited intelligence on Iraq in his 2003 State of the Union address.
The Times has not published any articles saying it received information about Ms. Plame's identity.
The landmark Supreme Court case, Branzburg v. Hayes took care of this some time ago.
With rare exception, reporters are not legally allowed to protect their sources.
>>I will send a free copy of "Unfit for Command" to every left wing journalist, who is locked up for violations of National Security Issues, and maybe Gideons can provide them a free bible.
Now THAT would be perfect!
Not to get off the subject, but I went to buy Unfit For Command and was thinking I sure wish KKKerrys face wasn't on the front - he really does bring up a gag reaction right in the pit of my stomach - can you imagine that scum as president? Now I know how alex baldwin feels.
Thanks. I always wondered how reporters got away with not "answering to the judge", now I know they can't.
In light of this new knowledge, I believe at least 95% of reporters belong in jail (for something).
Okay, let me in on the joke. Because I read the article and don't see how the turn of events is a GOOD thing. I don't see it as a bad thing.
Now it does, or did, occur to me that perhaps Joe Wilson himself leaked that his wife was/is a CIA operative. With this thought, I wonder if this is why the administration is giving Wilson what he wished for, ie an investigation into the 'leak' that he purported to be a vengeance for his criticism of Bush's SOTU speech.
At this time we know Wilson's Niger story was a lie, that his book was orchestrated smashingly by the DNC, that CBS aided and abetted the lie for first crack at a Bill Clinton interview for his book of lies. We know that Novak was/is the journalist that first wrote the story. Did someone at the Times give Novak the information first?
I'm missing something here.
Just baseless speculation on my part. I just think it would be ironic if that even before anyone gave the info to Novak, that it turned out that Wilson (being the partisan that he showed himself to be) had gone around to various media outlets peddling the "Niger is bogus" story and as part of it mentions how his wife works at CIA.
No you don't know how scumbag Baldwin feels. You are a sane person. He is an overweight wife abusing has been Follywood liar , who is a lunatic with classic "I Hate GW Bush" syndrome.
"""The liberals stepped into it big time with this breech of security and the Bergular Dox in Soxs breech.
Grandjury investigations in secure courtrooms are held. Anyone who leaks what is going on may find themselves up for investigation. Even Lanny Davis can't spin what is happening behind the closed and locked doors in these two grandjury investigations."
One would think so however, with this bunch the law never gets in their way.
This administration, which the media and their masters
have continually itched about is "secretative" in it nature. This being the case, it is anybody's guess as to what is accurate "news" to sending coded signals via print, internet, and the air waves.
Why is your speculation baseless? Here I think your scenario is EXACTLY what happened.
If I'm right, then consider...part of the drama required for the Wilson book of lies, as part of the deceitful plan of McCullough and Carville, was that ole Joe would contend the administration was punishing him for his Op-Ed by leaking that his wife was a CIA somebody.
It was all part of the marketing plan before Wilson's ghost even wrote a word, don't be fooled. This entire thing is an orchestration and I'm wondering, how funny is it that the Dems went out demanding an investigation, expecting, what? Nothing to come of it?
Then Bush says 'sure, we'll investigate', knowing the whole scam. This surprises the Dems as they really don't want the world to know that Wilson himself leaked the info about his wife. Knowing that Novak would run with it in order to discredit him, thus giving Wilson the chance he needed to cry outrage.
I think this is all a setup is what I'm saying here. So you're thinking out loud comment caught me by surprise.
You don't think the Dems, with the help of Hollywood, are capable of this?
Watch and learn as these two case unfold.
Please decode what you are trying to say below. I have no idea of what your are saying or implying:
"This administration, which the media and their masters
have continually itched about is "secretative" in it nature. This being the case, it is anybody's guess as to what is accurate "news" to sending coded signals via print, internet, and the air waves."
My bet is that it was Wilson himself who outted his wife.
Remember that Wilson on his mission to Nigeria was a Bush Administration Employee too!~}
Most people and ALL LIEberal media outlets forget that FACT!
"The Times has not published any articles saying it received information about Ms. Plame's identity."
So? The investigation isn't limited to that.
I can't recall Miller ever writing anything particular about the matter. But she writes about WMDs...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/29/novak.cia/
"Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this," Novak said on "Crossfire." "There is no great crime here."
"Just baseless speculation on my part. I just think it would be ironic if that even before anyone gave the info to Novak, that it turned out that Wilson (being the partisan that he showed himself to be) had gone around to various media outlets peddling the "Niger is bogus" story and as part of it mentions how his wife works at CIA." posted by Gman.
Response by Fishtalk:
"Why is your speculation baseless? Here I think your scenario is EXACTLY what happened.
If I'm right, then consider...part of the drama required for the Wilson book of lies, as part of the deceitful plan of McCullough and Carville, was that ole Joe would contend the administration was punishing him for his Op-Ed by leaking that his wife was a CIA somebody.
It was all part of the marketing plan before Wilson's ghost even wrote a word, don't be fooled. This entire thing is an orchestration and I'm wondering, how funny is it that the Dems went out demanding an investigation, expecting, what? Nothing to come of it?
Then Bush says 'sure, we'll investigate', knowing the whole scam. This surprises the Dems as they really don't want the world to know that Wilson himself leaked the info about his wife. Knowing that Novak would run with it in order to discredit him, thus giving Wilson the chance he needed to cry outrage.
I think this is all a setup is what I'm saying here. So you're thinking out loud comment caught me by surprise.
You don't think the Dems, with the help of Hollywood, are capable of this?"
If it were Karl Rove that leaked the story, somehow i dont think all these media elites would be fretting about "revealing their sources"!
So is she going to be the sacrificial goat for the Slimes or was she implicated in testimony behind the locked doors.
"If it were Karl Rove that leaked the story, somehow i dont think all these media elites would be fretting about "revealing their sources"!"
That is great! If Rove was the leaker, they would have had audio tapes, video tapes and Michael Moore would have had a new movie.
The subpeona list from Newsday in March:
Robert Novak, "Crossfire," "Capital Gang" and the Chicago Sun-Times
Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps, Newsday
Walter Pincus, Richard Leiby, Mike Allen, Dana Priest and Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post
Matthew Cooper, John Dickerson, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy and James Carney, Time magazine
Evan Thomas, Newsweek
Andrea Mitchell, "Meet the Press," NBC
Chris Matthews, "Hardball,"
MSNBC
Tim Russert, Campbell Brown, NBC
Nicholas D. Kristof, David E. Sanger and Judith Miller, The New York Times
Greg Hitt and Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal
John Solomon, The Associated Press
Jeff Gannon, Talon News
This is starting to sound like a big old game of "Telephone". When this investigation is over I am waiting for someone to come out in his/her best Emily Littela voice and say,"Nevermind."
However, the list that Shermy provided looks to me more extensive than simply a few contacts of Wilson's. I am wondering if there is someone else who had the information and loved to schmooze with the press. That someone would be the lizard Richard Clarke.
Since he LOVED to pontificate for the press for hours at a time, it seems to me that he would be likely to drop a tidbit of information as a way of showing how "in the know" he is.
Plus, I have never forgiven him for that insulting lie about Condi Rice, and I would like to see him discredited and ARRESTED.
Thanks for posting that.
For the most part, they are the screaming head whining left wing mediots who hate GW 24/7.
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