Prosecutors in the case of a former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling accused of leaking classified information are attempting to reverse a lower court finding that a New York Times reporter James Risen was exempt from disclosing his sources for a story on a CIA program to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program.
The government prosecutors claim that there is no right for reporters to withhold identities of sources in criminal cases. -db
From a commentary in Secrecy News, January 17, 2012, by Steven Aftergood.