More Obama DOJ attacks on whistleblowers
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
04/29/10
In February, 2008, the Bush DOJ issued a subpoena to The New York Times‘ James Risen, demanding the identity of his source(s) for one chapter in Risen’s best-selling book, State of War. The chapter in question described a painfully inept and counter-productive CIA effort to infiltrate the Iranian nuclear program, but which ended up instead passing on valuable information to the Iranians about how to build a bomb. At the time that subpoena was issued, I wrote that it was a serious and ‘dangerous’ escalation of the ongoing effort by Bush officials to intimidate journalists and their sources in order to choke off whistle-blowing disclosures, ‘the sole remaining avenue for a country plagued by a supine, slothful, vapid press and an indescribably submissive Congress.’ I don’t recall a single progressive or Democrat — not one — defending that subpoena. It should surprise absolutely nobody that, as Charlie Savage reports, the Obama DOJ has now re-issued the same subpoena to Risen...
http://tinyurl.com/268o49b
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DOJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charlie+Savage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald
04/29/10
In February, 2008, the Bush DOJ issued a subpoena to The New York Times‘ James Risen, demanding the identity of his source(s) for one chapter in Risen’s best-selling book, State of War. The chapter in question described a painfully inept and counter-productive CIA effort to infiltrate the Iranian nuclear program, but which ended up instead passing on valuable information to the Iranians about how to build a bomb. At the time that subpoena was issued, I wrote that it was a serious and ‘dangerous’ escalation of the ongoing effort by Bush officials to intimidate journalists and their sources in order to choke off whistle-blowing disclosures, ‘the sole remaining avenue for a country plagued by a supine, slothful, vapid press and an indescribably submissive Congress.’ I don’t recall a single progressive or Democrat — not one — defending that subpoena. It should surprise absolutely nobody that, as Charlie Savage reports, the Obama DOJ has now re-issued the same subpoena to Risen...
http://tinyurl.com/268o49b
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DOJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charlie+Savage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
rudkla - 30. Apr, 10:07
