Judge holds veteran journalist Catherine Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to divulge source

AP ^ | February 29, 2024 | ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

[Brian Griffin]

Print up your questions in a local paper.

I will publicly request that my source send the judge a letter with responses.

[Colorado Doug]

Herridge needs to understand the huge national interest in locating and liquidating these leakers. Biden was paid good money to deal with these things and China is big on looking after their national interests.

[SheepWhisperer]

brilliant

[VetoBill]

CBS didn’t find the files they were hoping to when they seized her documents after they fired her. That means the government is afraid she has personal files tucked away so they need a reason to raid her.
They just crafted one
Countdown until the FBI storms her house.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

AP actually admitted he is an Obama judge.

[vpintheak]

We see now why she was let go, and why they kept her notes. Birds of a commie feather, flock together.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Herrige had previously stated that the NSA or CIA has hacked into her computers. She’s smart enough that the source only exists in her memory, not in any documents.

[bantam]

How do these azzholes get judgeships?

[Nextrush]

Looks like FBI material was leaked to Herridge imagine if the FBI did that to some Conservative-Republican someone supporting Trump someone associated with J6.

Imagine giving dirt on one of us to the FBI and some reporter doing the story making us look bad.

They did it to a Chinese-American accused of Chinese military connections so everyone is taking her side in this story.

Technically the First Amendment applies to Herridge but the spirit of this not good ole First Amendment journalism IMHO.

[Alberta's Child]

I’m really not impressed with these journalists — even the good ones.

If I was Catherine Herridge, I’d have files all over my office, home and on my computers listing “Biden, Hunter” as a source for every story that has attracted the interest of the FBI.

[TigersEye]

... wrote Cooper, who was nominated to the bench by former President Barack Obama.

Ah, yes, that clarifies the whole thing.

What administration illegally spied on several journalists? Yep, that one.

Thanks, GOP, for letting that all completely slide.

[TigersEye]

I was trying to remember if that was Catherine Herridge or Sharyl Attkisson that Jugears had the FBI spy on. Or was it both?

[chris haney]

Why did Chicago conservative or Cotton post this ?

[cld51860]

We now live in a thugocracy.

[thegagline]

A black judge acting like a tinpot dictator. :

[Lazamataz]

Both.

[TigersEye]

Plus there was a male journalist from Fox News that 0bamaomau spied on. Can’t remember who.

[Pollard]

Meanwhile, the NYT can publish classified info from their anonymous sources in fedgov.

[mewzilla]

Surely they already know who her sources are...

What is this really about.

[Tench_Coxe]

"Herridge, who was recently laid off by CBS News, published an investigative series for Fox News in 2017 that examined Chen’s ties to the Chinese military and raised questions about whether the scientist was using a professional school she founded in Virginia to help the Chinese government get information about American servicemembers."

When the story first broke, I suspected the seizure of her files by CBS was related to the China case, which was investigated by Herridge when she was at Fox News.

So now they're back to putting the squeeze on Herridge, not having found what they were looking for. Smart girl, that one.

The bigger question in my mind is who put the pressure on CBS (I'm guessing it is elements in the US government). And it looks like there are more figures/institutions compromised by China than we suspect. Scary thought.

Side note: I notice a parallel with the raid on Mar a Lago re: "the binder".