Word: subpoenae
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...point Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times gathered material for stories about the Plame scandal. Cooper testified about one source—Dick Cheney’s chief of staff (who released Cooper from his confidentiality obligations)—and then was subpoenaed a second time to testify about other confidential sources. Miller, who never wrote a story, was also served with a subpoena seeking information about her sources. Both refused to testify, and they and their media outlets have since carried out a court battle against the subpoenas...
...case, Branzburg v. Hayes, in which a reporter witnessed two individuals “synthesizing hashish from marihuana [sic].” We are no legal experts, but both Branzburg, and the two cases the Court cited in its decision to deny Branzburg his petition to quash a subpoena, involved a reporter offering confidentiality in order to observe criminal acts. Irrespective of the propriety of this precedent, the cases seem to be utterly and completely different; Cooper and Miller were gathering facts on a crime that had already occurred, a crime that in the first place was the leaking...
...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 or face civil contempt penalties, which usually means jail. Both TIME and the New York Times will appeal the ruling, going...
Since then judges have argued that Republican politicians--always eager to look tough on crime--have been tightening guidelines and further chipping away at their prized independence. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Sensenbrenner once threatened to subpoena a federal district judge's records to see whether he had been too lenient, and a year later, Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered federal prosecutors to report judges who were similarly showing too much forgiveness...
Graner's attorney has said his client and the other MPs are "scapegoats." But the presiding judge has refused defense attempts to subpoena higher-ups like Donald Rumsfeld. The Pentagon, the FBI and the CIA are still investigating prisoner mistreatment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guant??namo Bay, but no high-ranking official has faced charges so far. Some have even been promoted. --By Mitch Frank