By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years into the Obama administration, the Justice Department appears to be as hard-nosed about challenging reporters’ rights to protect confidential sources as it was under the Bush administration. The latest: The Justice Department has gone to the Court of Appeals to challenge District judge, who ruled that New York…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes curiosity just isn’t enough reason to do something. At least that’s what the government seems to believe as it fights efforts by the group Judicial Watch, which has asked under the Freedom of Information Act for photos and videos of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden after he was killed…
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Not everyone in Mexico is happy with America helping the Mexicans battle the drug cartels. Prominent Mexican poet and peace activist Javier Sicilia wants the Mexican government to explain the reported presence of CIA and DEA agents in Mexico, Fox News Latino reported. Fox News reported that Sicilia made the demand…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com University of Michigan History Professor Juan Cole wants to take a peak at CIA and FBI files — and for pretty good reason. Last month, according to the New York Times, former CIA official Glenn Carle said the Bush White House wanted to smear Cole’s reputation and discredit him because he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal grand jury in Virginia has been looking at a CIA officer who oversaw the agency’s interrogation program at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Steve Stormoen, who is now retired, pushed for increasingly harsh tactics. AP reported that he supervised an unofficial…
Reporter James Risen By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department and the New York Times have had their fair share of battles in court over testifying. The latest: Fed prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., have subpoenaed Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter James Risen to testify against a former CIA operative who is awaiting trial,…
