The U.S. Department
of Justice has issued a subpoena for the testimony of a New York Times reporter
in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA operations officer accused of
leaking classified information, highlighting
a trend of government attempts to use journalists' testimony in cases against
government employees who reveal government information in exchange for
anonymity. rcfp.org
Federal prosecutors also filed a motion late Monday in support of the
subpoena, anticipating that Pulitzer Prize-winner James Risen would seek to have
the subpoena quashed. "His testimony is directly relevant to, and powerful
evidence of, facts that are squarely at issue in this trial -- including the
identity of the perpetrator," the motion says. rcfp.org The purpose of Risen's subpoena is to force him to testify that
Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent, gave him confidential information about
the CIA's efforts to sabotage "In President Obama's 26 months in office,
civilian and military prosecutors have charged five people in cases involving
leaking information, more than all previous presidents combined," reports the
Times. The Atlantic Wire The subpoena tells Mr. Risen that "you are commanded" to appear at
federal district court in A federal district judge, Leonie M. Brinkema, quashed a similar
subpoena to Mr. Risen last year, when prosecutors were trying to persuade a
grand jury to indict Mr. Sterling. NYT
Also Thomas Drake,a former senior executive at the National Security
Agency, is being charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for leaking information
to a In the aftermath of 9/11, Drake believed the agency was wasting its
resources on a bloated surveillance system called Trailblazer, the NSA's largest
project, instead of a cheaper, more efficient system called "Thin Thread." The
Atlantic Wire U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning was arrested on charges of
"transferring classified data" and "delivering national defense information to
an unauthorized source." Amnesty.org Among his most sever charges are the leakage of a video posted by
Wikileaks of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a
Reuters news photographer and his driver. Reuters
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