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Despite the magazine’s advocacy, the day after the piece ran, the Financial Times announced that Summers had “found himself embroiled in controversy after the leaking of an internal memorandum.” Indeed, the weeks following the Economist leak made Summers the target of a barrage of shock and fury from environmentalist groups and policy makers. Brazilian officials filed a protest with the World Bank, while Greenpeace took the honor of being the first group ever to call for Summers’ resignation. The Boston Globe dubbed him the “enfant terrible...
Judge David Tatel hinted at the nature of this case when he wrote that he might have granted the reporter’s request, had the leak been “less harmful to national security or more vital to public debate.” Surely prosecutors will not decide what leaks meet this standard, and hopefully judges will not, either. To say that freedom of the press exists ad hoc, in cases that meet some mutable standard of harmlessness and vitality, is to say that it does not exist at all. Any damning exposé of government policy could...
...Leak investigations in Washington usually fizzle and die within days of being launched. But one leak probe, now in its 14th month, is rapidly approaching a showdown. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has ordered two reporters, including TIME White House correspondent Matthew Cooper, to tell a grand jury who might have disclosed to them the identity of a covert CIA officer during a tangled political dustup in the summer of 2003. TIME sought to quash the subpoena through most of 2004, but last week a federal appeals court ruled that Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times must testify...
...mass destruction. Wilson informed the CIA upon his return that he had found no evidence of an Iraqi purchase, yet the Administration continued to make the charge right up until the beginning of the war. After Wilson revealed his tale in July 2003, Plame's name may have been leaked in retaliation. TIME's online story, written chiefly by Cooper, appeared three days after Novak's column, and it wasn't long after that the CIA asked the Justice Department to investigate the leak. A 1982 law made it illegal for government officials to disclose the identity of a covert...
Sexually loaded torment by female interrogators is the latest chapter in the prisoner-abuse scandals that will not fade away. This incident with the Saudi first came to light last month in a leak to the Associated Press of part of a draft book manuscript written by this TIME correspondent and former Army Sergeant Erik Saar, the Arabic translator for the 2003 episode. The leaked pages also described a civilian interrogator's habit of keeping a miniskirt and thong underwear hanging on the back of an office door ready to deploy in her sessions. The military has acknowledged some...