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...seven blocks from the police station. The house had a shed in the back where, they said, crack was sold, and over the summer there were two murders nearby that Griffith thought were linked to the drug trade. He went to the city attorney and the DEA, had some covert surveillance put on the house, served several search warrants and finally found the evidence he needed to evict the drug dealers and send at least three of the ringleaders to jail. After Griffith executed one search warrant, an occupant of the house filed a complaint against him, alleging improper treatment...
...cooperating with the investigation." But reporters are not likely to feel the same pressure. Journalists rarely divulge the identities of confidential sources even when threatened with contempt citations so the releases may make little difference. Still, in a post-9/11 world, a case involving the disclosure of a covert agent's identity could be taken very seriously by a judge, who would have the power to jail a member of the press for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury...
What Novak and his sources did was treasonous. Revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer is just as harmful as publishing troop movements. The leakers should all go to jail. It was disgusting, intolerable behavior. Americans at the polls in 2004 should hold Bush accountable for the acts of his subordinates. STEPHEN LEE Glenview...
...What Novak and his sources did was treasonous. Revealing the identity of a covert cia officer is just as harmful as publishing troop movements. The leakers should all go to jail. It was disgusting, intolerable behavior. Americans at the polls in 2004 should hold President George W. Bush accountable for the acts of his subordinates. Stephen Lee Glenview...
...than his talent. But the more condemning crime wouldn’t surface until a few days later, when Rush acknowledged an addiction to painkillers and lent credence to the claim that he’d illegally purchased some 30,000 pills from his maid—which involved covert operations featuring parking lots and cigar boxes full of cash...