5 Reporters Ordered to Testify About Government Sources
By Adam Liptak, New York Times
Five reporters must testify about their law enforcement sources in a former Army scientist's lawsuit against the Justice Department, a federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday.
The suit, filed by Steven J. Hatfill, a bioterrorism expert, contends that the government violated the federal Privacy Act by providing journalists with information about him in the F.B.I.'s investigation of the deadly anthrax mailings in 2001.
The reporters - 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 - have acknowledged receiving information from the Justice Department and the F.B.I. about Dr. Hatfill, the judge, Reggie B. Walton, wrote in his decision yesterday. But they have refused to name their sources.
Judge Walton, of the Federal District Court in Washington, said Dr. Hatfill was entitled to the sources' names because "the information sought is clearly central to his Privacy Act claims."
"Denying civil litigants access to the identity of government officials who have allegedly leaked information to reporters would effectively leave Privacy Act violations immune from judicial condemnation," Judge Walton wrote, "while leaving potential leakers virtually undeterred from engaging in such misbehavior."
The reporters are not defendants in the suit but are likely to face contempt sanctions if they fail to comply with Judge Walton's order. Lawyers for Mr. Lengel and Ms. Locy and a spokeswoman for Mr. Isikoff and Mr. Klaidman declined to comment yesterday. A lawyer for Mr. Stewart did not respond to a request for comment.
In April, Judge Walton referred the parties to mediation in an effort to settle the case. A separate lawsuit by Dr. Hatfill against The New York Times, claiming that columns by Nicholas D. Kristof had defamed him, was dismissed by a federal judge in Virginia in January. Dr. Hatfill has appealed.
Last year, the government and five news organizations, including The Times, paid Wen Ho Lee, an atomic scientist once suspected of espionage, $1,645,000 to settle what Judge Walton, in his decision yesterday, called a "strikingly similar" case.
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Paging Dr. Philip Zack . Please Pick Up The White Courtesy Phone
Paging Dr. Philip Zack, please pick up the white courtesy phone . .. ;-)
Okay, kidz . . . Anthrax attacks . . . Cui bono? Who benefits? . . .who had the Motive, Means, and Opportunity to not only steal Anthrax from the bio-vaults at Fort Detrick, but the "5th Column" media monopoly to "Oswald" Dr. Steven Hatfill as their patsy?
(clipped headline and link to Anthrax Attack Research Archives)
"The FBI knows of a man who was caught entering the lab where the Anthrax used in the letters was kept, after he had been fired for a racially motivated attack on a co-worker. So, why is the FBI wasting its time with Steven Hatfill?"
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html
Who IMMEDIATELY had "experts for hire" like my "special friend" Jerome "Answer Man" Hauer at the front lines of that Rubert Murdoch & Friends 5th Column 9/11 Psy-Op pointing the finger at their "patsy" . .. all those mean ol' "AYE-RABS" sitting on lots of Oil & Heroin . ..
. .. you know, right where "Greater Israel" is supposed to go according to their "Clean Break" strategy that all those Patriarchal Fascist PNAC architects like Pearl & Wolfowitz came up with BEFORE they came up with the PNAC "New American Century" doctrine that they sold to BushCo and the American/British Neo Cons . . .
Who had their "operative", Dov "Mr. Books" Zakheim, put in charge of the accounting office at the Pentagon and managed to steal over 3 TRILLION dollars from WE THE PEOPLE to "cover the expenses" of 9/11?
. .. funny, how this "Heist of the Century" story just can't compete with Paris Hilton in the media, huh, kidz?
Who now has their "operative", Michael "Mr. Talmud" Chertoff in charge of "Homeland Security" to insure that no real investigations ever occur into 9/11, the Anthrax Attacks, the missing TRILLIONS, or all that cheap Afghan Heroin and Heroin laced Ecstasy that is being flooded into Palestine and America to cripple and enslave the youth of those "enemy countries"?
But, as their #1 Fan, "MOSSAD MATTY" keeps telling us here on THIS forum, asking questions like these about Israel's MOSSAD or Sith Lord Rothschild and his Khazar Mafia makes you a dirty ol' "Anti-Semite" . . . isn't that right, there Mr. Semper Fi? . .. "Always Faithful", indeed . .. ;-)
"Through Deception You Shall Make War"
- Motto of Israel's MOSSAD
It is so fascinating that the rest of the world sees this so clearly, yet so many Americans continue to be blinded by this 5th Column "Matrix" of "Incestuous Amplification". . . (i.e. believing your own propaganda) . . .I just finished a Japanese Anime series called, "Mobile Suit GUNDAM" and the story line was all about yet another "pure" and "chosen" Patriarchal Fascist "Master Race" rising up to monopolize all resources and purge humanity of all "inferior" types . . . and just guess who the "bad guys" were, kidz? . . .;-)
I guess these Japanese animators can be added to the ADL/B'Nai B'rith list of "People that must be destroyed" . . . like President Jimmy Carter, Walt and Mearsheimer . .. and this ol' yippy fool from North Cackilacki . .. ;-)
But like I've said before, these Zionist character assassins chose the wrong AMERICAN for their Patsy when they starting fucking with Dr. Steven Hatfill . . . he's not the type to roll over and play dead as you can tell from this law suit, kidz . . .;-)
ROCK ON, DR. HATFILL!!! Bust it wide open for all the world to see!!! . . .
. .. because with "friends" like Israel & Sith Lord Rothschild and his minions . . . who needs "enemies"??? . . .;-)
IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY!!
RICO PNAC & AIPAC!!!
MOSSAD OUT OF USA!!!
"Some folks say there ain't no bears in Arkansas
Some folks never seen a bear at all
Some folks say that bears go around eating babies raw
Some folks got a bear across the hall"
- Bears by Lyle Lovett
peace.
Makes you think wakin' up aint so hard to do
I've been waiting for someone to bust up the anthrax crime, glad to find out it's not dead yet... some of the same FBI "supervisors" involved almost invariably were directly instrumental in the al Qaeda ditch and 911 scapegoating!
BTW
"3 TRILLION dollars from WE THE PEOPLE to "cover the expenses" of 9/11?"
The out of pocket cost for the entirety of 911 probably hovers around 500 mil spread out over 6 nation's inner security establishments: US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, UK, and Kuwait.
"IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY!!
RICO PNAC & AIPAC!!!
MOSSAD OUT OF USA!!!"
Let me add,
EXPOSE THE INSIDE TRUTH OF 911
This has got to be a "core column" attacked from underneath the international fascist establishment.
ixoxi