The Justice Department says it approved subpoenas or search warrants for three journalists last year
Source: Washington Post
The Justice Department said Friday that former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. authorized three subpoenas or search warrants last year for journalists or people viewed as members of the media, though two of the three were not ultimately used.
This information was included in a four-page report released Friday afternoon that the Justice Department said encompassed requests law enforcement officials made to media members for information.
One of these requests came in the form of Holder authorizing a subpoena calling for limited testimony from New York Times reporter James Risen in a leak case involving a former CIA officer. Risen’s 2006 book, “State of War,” detailed a CIA plan to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program, and prosecutors charged that Jeffrey A. Sterling, a former CIA operative, provided information used in that chapter.
The Supreme Court declined Risen’s appeal last year, allowing the possibility that prosecutors still may have subpoenaed the reporter in the case, but they ultimately decided not to call him to testify. Sterling was convicted in January.
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