Posted on 08/01/2006 5:23:56 PM PDT by VA40
Just heard on Fox News break something about Court ruling NYT has to give up phone records re: tipping off Islamic charity case. Nothing on web site yet
Wouldn't that be the gal reporter?
I can't remember her name.
You have to look real hard to find this:
"US wins appeal to seek NY Times phone records
Tue Aug 1, 2006 6:40pm ET
By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government won an appeal on Tuesday allowing it to seek phone records of New York Times reporters investigating government probes into Islamic charities shortly before the September 11 attacks.
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the government, which wants to know the identity of government sources who might have given information to two New York Times reporters, including former reporter Judith Miller.
The decision is the latest episode in the free speech battle that has pitted U.S. prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald against the Times and Miller.
Miller spent 85 days in jail last year for resisting Fitzgerald's requests to reveal her sources in a separate case that led to the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
The case decided on Tuesday involves Fitzgerald heading a grand jury investigation into how Miller and fellow reporter Philip Shenon learned of government plans to search the premises of two Islamic charities, and sought comment from them before the search took place.
The Times filed a lawsuit and successfully blocked a threatened subpoena being sought by Fitzgerald to seek the phone records of the two reporters after the newspaper refused to identify their sources.
In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals court overturned a lower court ruling that said the phone records were protected from disclosure by a reporter's privilege under the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech and the press.
"We are disappointed in the decision," said the Times' assistant general counsel George Freeman. " Continued...
Here is another post from earlier today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675901/posts
Judith Miller.
Hail, hail, the jerks are going to jail.
Thank you
Yes, that's her, funny how her name keeps coming to the surface.
Judith Miller.
And, interestingly enough, the prosecutor in this case is our old friend, Robert Fitzgerald...
"Ah, Fitzy. And so we meet again..."
But the article says TWO reporters....who's the OTHER one??
Yes I heard it. Part of Fitzmas.
DU is going to go ballistic. Fitzgerald is the one who has claimed that their revealtion tipped off the terrorist.
Here's hoping this finally gets somewhere. One can hope I guess
NYT website is down, I couldn't find anything at Washpost.
Congrats on getting this news posted!
I wonder if they will consider her time "served".
I vaguely remember this case. anyone have a link?
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