Reporters Told to Testify in Leak Case (Re: Scientist In Anthrax Case)

[kpete]

Reporters Told to Testify in Leak Case

MATT APUZZO | August 13, 2007 07:24 PM EST |


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WASHINGTON — Five journalists must identify the government officials who leaked them details about a scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks, a federal judge said Monday.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ordered the reporters to cooperate with Steven J. Hatfill, who accused the Justice Department and FBI of violating the federal Privacy Act by giving the media information about the FBI's investigation of him.

The reporters named in the opinion are Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman of Newsweek, Allan Lengel of The Washington Post, Toni Locy, formerly of USA Today, and James Stewart, formerly of CBS News.

Walton denied Hatfill's request to demand information from the media companies ABC, The Washington Post, Newsweek, CBS, The Associated Press, The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070813/anthrax-hatfill/

[OzarkDem]

1. Is this why Rove left?

:shrug:

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Good call, Reggie.

Just like the Plame business. The original leak was done to serve the Bushies' interest, not the public interest. Pretty muh the diametrical opposite of a whistleblower leak.

[H2O Man]

8. Right n/t

[rodeodance]

3. I think this is good.

[Olney Blue]

4. Hatfill is acting like an innocent man- he wants the truth to come out.

[soothsayer]

6. that poor bastard was totally railroaded, like that security guy at the atlanta olympic

bombing.

[fooj]

5. Way to go, Reggie.

"Under scrutiny"??? Ya think?

Five people were killed and 17 sickened by anthrax that was mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New York and Florida just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Just WHO, exactly, is behind attempting to frame this guy?

[babylonsister]

7. Walton again! YES! nt

[kpete]

9. hmmmmmmmmmmm

We know Reggie Walton will not back f=down on making the reporters testify. We wonder if the Anthrax attacks could have been an example of WH dirty tricks.

Could it be that the Great White Rove had a hand in leaking info tothe press to misdirect them towards the guy the FBI was looking at?

You know to create a bright shiny object so they woud not go down the road of wondering who benefitted from these attacks?

Could it be that the anthrax investigations leaks were a precursor of the Plame leaks?

Hell, they seemed to work the first time, and at the time of the Plame leaking it seemed like no one would get caught.

So, at the time of the Plame leaking would this not have seemed to be a tried and true formula?

Or, is it just that I ahve been breathing DC air for the last 4 days and it’s done something to my brain?

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