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By Brian Stelter and Michael D. Shear, New York Times, May 20/21, 2013:
The White House on Monday defended President Obama’s support for aggressive investigations into national security leaks despite new disclosures about a 2009 case in which the Justice Department searched a reporter’s personal e-mails and attempted to track his movements.
Details of the government’s investigation of the reporter, James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, emerged in a court affidavit obtained by The Washington Post. Without naming Mr. Rosen, the document describes the reporter as “at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator.”
The case involved a 2009 article by Mr. Rosen about North Korea that was published on FoxNews.com. Mr. Rosen reported that intelligence officials expected North Korea to respond to the passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning its nuclear and ballistic missile tests by launching another missile. He quoted a source who described missile activity in North Korea, but Mr. Rosen said he was withholding some details “to avoid compromising sensitive overseas operations.”
The Justice Department subsequently investigated the leak and indicted a government adviser, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim. He has pleaded not guilty. The government used records tracking Mr. Rosen’s use of his security badge at the State Department, apparently trying to establish his connection to Mr. Kim.
Mr. Rosen was not charged with any crime. But the suggestion that he was a “co-conspirator” appalled many of his colleagues, some of whom rallied to his defense on Monday [.....]
Also see:
Gov't presses ahead on another leak case
By Pete Yost, Associated Press, May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON—In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory—by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information. During the investigation of State Department adviser Stephen Kim, law enforcement officials obtained a search warrant for some private emails of James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News. Investigators also tracked Rosen's comings and goings from the State Department [.....]
Comments
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 12:56pm
The Justice Department and Fox News’s Phone Records,
by Ryan Lizza, News Desk @ newyorker.com, May 21, 2013
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/23/2013 - 1:48am
Holder's got trouble on this:
Isikoff's sources are rarely wrong.
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 2:47am