Re: Will the Justice Department Send a Reporter to Jail? (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Wow.  That is so disgusting.

Did you write?

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 17:41:02 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 17:05:04 -0400 (EDT)
 >  > From: FAIR <http://www.fair.org/~fair>
 >  > 
 >  > FAIR 
 >  > 
 >  > Will the Justice Department Send a Reporter to Jail?
 >  > 
 >  > 6/4/14
 >  > 
 >  > *New York Times *reporter James Risen might be headed to jail soon for 
 >  > refusing to reveal the source of his critical reporting on the CIA.
 >  > 
 >  > *Join FAIR and a coalition of organizations [ 
 >  > http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9775&tag=FAIR20140508&track=FAIR20140508
 >  >  ]--including The Nation and RootsAction--to send a clear message to the 
 >  > Obama administration: Stop the persecution of journalists.*
 >  > 
 >  > Risen had reported in his 2006 book State of War on the CIA's delivery of 
 >  > nuclear secrets to Iran as part of a botched disinformation effort. It's the 
 >  > kind of reckless bungling that citizens need to know about, but that 
 >  > government officials would obviously prefer to keep secret. So they tried to 
 >  > find the source of the embarrassing--and eminently newsworthy--leak.
 >  > 
 >  > This week, the Supreme Court refused to hear Risen's appeal. This means the 
 >  > Times reporter must either testify or face jail to protect his sources--and 
 >  > the practice of independent journalism.
 >  > 
 >  > *Sign the petition to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric 
 >  > Holder today [ 
 >  > http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9775&tag=FAIR20140508&track=FAIR20140508
 >  >  ]*. Let them know that you oppose this attack on a free press.
 >  > 
 >  > "To: President Obama and Attorney General Holder"
 >  > 
 >  > "Your effort to compel New York Times reporter James Risen to reveal his 
 >  > sources is an assault on freedom of the press. Without confidentiality, 
 >  > journalism would be reduced to official stories--a situation antithetical to 
 >  > the First Amendment. We urge you in the strongest terms to halt all legal 
 >  > action against Mr. Risen and to safeguard the freedom of journalists to 
 >  > maintain the confidentiality of their sources."