In other news, Fitzgerald sure has a lot on his plate.
Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is also acting as a special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe, informed the Times by letter last week that his office has subpoenaed telephone company records. The move is part of an effort to determine whether anyone in the government told Times reporters of planned federal asset seizures in December 2001 at the offices of an Islamic charity suspected of providing funding to al Qaeda, according to several sources familiar with the case.
The FBI believes that a call from a reporter to a representative of the charity, the Illinois-based Global Relief Foundation, may have led to the destruction of documents there the night before the government's raid, according to findings by the Sept. 11 commission.
The subpoena seeks the phone records of two Times reporters, Philip Shenon and Judith Miller, according to the sources.
...[Fitzgerald] sought a subpoena for the Times reporters' phone records last year but was turned down by political appointees at Justice Department headquarters, according to current and former government officials. It is unclear what other investigative steps he has taken since then.
WaPo article
The FBI believes that a call from a reporter to a representative of the charity, the Illinois-based Global Relief Foundation, may have led to the destruction of documents there the night before the government's raid, according to findings by the Sept. 11 commission.
The subpoena seeks the phone records of two Times reporters, Philip Shenon and Judith Miller, according to the sources.
...[Fitzgerald] sought a subpoena for the Times reporters' phone records last year but was turned down by political appointees at Justice Department headquarters, according to current and former government officials. It is unclear what other investigative steps he has taken since then.
Judith Miller. She's the reporter Ahmed Chalabi fed bogus information to.
The commission's findings added that "press leaks plagued almost every OFAC [U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control] blocking action that took place in the United States."
Why does the press hate America?
And speaking of Novak, who leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity and won't tell where he got the information (likely from Cheney's office), I read somewhere (and cannot find it now) that he has recently announced that CBS ought to have to reveal its sources for the AWOL documents. Because press privilege should extend to cases where the Oaf of Office might be proved a liar but not to cases where the national security is at stake, I guess.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Update 6:30 pm: LaBelle says she read that about Novak on Atrios' blog, but that he didn't source it, so he must have been watching TV. That's where I saw it. Thanks for the memory jog, Belle.
Atrios:
Funny
Novak just said CBS should reveal their source.
Novak just said CBS should reveal their source.
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