FBI's Israel Interests in Columnist's Files Detailed

[Scurrilous]

Professor Says Agents Sought Names of Reporters for Anderson Who Were Close to Nation or AIPAC

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"FBI agents last month sought the identities of pro-Israel reporters who had worked for columnist Jack Anderson or were close to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) when they asked to look through the late journalist's files, according to Mark Feldstein, director of the journalism program at George Washington University.

The agents asked Feldstein, a former journalist who is writing a book about Anderson, for the material as part of the criminal prosecution of Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former AIPAC lobbyists who were indicted last August on charges of violating the 1917 Espionage Act by receiving and transmitting national defense information.

Feldstein said he was called on March 2 by an FBI agent who asked for a meeting to talk about something "too sensitive" to discuss on an open telephone line. Feldstein already knew that the FBI had been unsuccessful in getting access to Anderson's files from the Anderson family after the columnist's death in December.

Feldstein, a former intern of Anderson's who is writing about the columnist's major exposés during the Nixon years, has had access to the roughly 200 boxes of material since they were delivered to the university by the Anderson family."


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[Coastie for Truth]

1. Of course you realize your posting andPM and IM may not be "secure"

References:

a) Schneier, "Applied Cryptography"
b) Proakis, "Digital Communications"
c) Zalewski, "Silence on the Wire : A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks"

:sarcasm: - But maybe not :rofl: - You never know with BFEE :hide:

If you're posting on a political web site - DU, CU, FR, P4C - who knows what the NSA and the FBI has.

Read the Zalewski book.

:sarcasm: - But maybe not :rofl: - You never know with BFEE :hide:

[dajudem]

2. yeah it was a real ruse...

Feldstein also said that no classified documents had turned up in his review of Anderson's Nixon-era files nor in a preliminary search by his graduate students of subsequent years through 2004.
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In a court filing last week, attorneys for Rosen and Weissman described these and several FBI's actions as "outrageous government conduct." They contended that agents used a subterfuge to get Anderson's widow to sign a paper consenting to a bureau review of the files.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III denied on Friday a motion to dismiss the AIPAC case based on the alleged outrageous conduct, saying only that the FBI actions with regard to Anderson have little to do with the case.

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As for the FBI seeking to review classified documents in the files, Van Atta said Anderson "really didn't deal with classified documents. He had a great memory and hardly took any notes."

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.