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Prosecutors seeking testimony of New York Times reporter in national security trial

donal brown January 17, 2012

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

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Reporter sues Obama over law he claims threatens free press

donal brown January 17, 2012

A reporter has sued President Barack Obama saying that under the Homeland Battlefield Bill reporters simply doing their job could be thrown in jail without due process. Signed into law last December 31, the bill authorizes the military to indefinitely detain without charge or trial anyone accused of supporting terrorists anywhere in the world. -db From the Courthouse News Service, January 17, 2012, by Adam Klaasfeld. Full story    

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Defense Department makes it easier to obtain court filings in Guantanamo trials

donal brown November 28, 2011

As trials of accused terrorists begin at Guantanamo Bay, the Defense Department released new regulations designed to create better access to court filings. Journalists have objected to the long review processes for obtaining court filings without which they were lost when covering the trials. -db From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, November 22, 2011, by Kirsten Berg. Full story    

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Justice Department refuses request for legal opinion concerning FBI surveillance

donal brown November 15, 2011

The Justice Department has refused a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for an important legal opinon on the use of “exigent letters,” a method of requesting information that includes telephone company records. In refusing to disclose the legal opinion, the DOJ cited national security concerns. -db From Politico, November 11, 2011, by Josh Gerstein. Full story    

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Federal judge rules for CIA in destruction of interrogation videotapes

donal brown October 10, 2011

The American Civil Liberties Union and allies lost a bid in federal court to find out who was responsible for destroying nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations in 2001 of al Qaeda leaders. The judge noted that the CIA had erred in destroying the videotapes but had since made changes to prevent the destruction of videos in the future. -db From the Courthouse News Service, October 6, 2011, by Adam Klasfeld. Full story

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