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Swasy is now enduring one of the two main results of the subpoena epidemic, a chill on her work because confidential sources may not feel safely anonymous. Other reporters have faced worse. In recent months, Libby Averyt of Texas' Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Brian Karem of KMOL-TV in San Antonio were jailed briefly for withholding unpublished or confidential information. Jail, fines or other punishments were threatened against reporters at the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Post and Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and even Florida's Stuart News and Oklahoma's Pryor Daily Times...
Sometimes editors see no reason to resist subpoenas. More often they can't stand the political heat, legal expense or logistical difficulty of having staff tied up in court. Harry Harris, a 26-year veteran of the Oakland Tribune, fought for a while but was eventually advised by Tribune lawyers to show his notebook in a murder case to a judge in chambers. He says, "I really have been affected by it. When you go into an interview, you say, 'Look, what you say is between you and me, and what I don't use, the public doesn't know...
...B.C.C.I. Jack Blum, the former chief investigator for Kerry's subcommittee, stunned the hearing last week by declaring that Altman and Clifford advised Amjad Awan, a B.C.C.I. official who had run the bank's Panama office, to flee the U.S. for Paris in 1988 to avoid a congressional subpoena. Altman, a fast-rising star in Washington legal and social circles, then reportedly arranged for B.C.C.I. to transfer Awan to Paris. But Carl Rauh, an attorney for Clifford and Altman, denied the account as "completely false." Pronounced Rauh: "It never happened...
...first to probe B.C.C.I.'s illegal operations. According to Kerry, the Justice Department has refused to provide documents and has blocked a deposition by a key witness, citing interference with its own investigation of B.C.C.I. To date, however, the Justice Department investigation in Washington has issued only one subpoena. "We have had a lot of difficulty getting any answers at all out of Justice," says Kerry. "We've been shuffled back and forth so many times between bureaus, trying to find somebody who was accountable. These things are very serious. What's shocking is that more energy hasn't been...
...White House, with its friends in Big Business and its fealty to the philosophy of deregulation, may not have expected so much activism so soon. "I have no problems making decisions," declares Kessler, who is investigating several strategies to bolster FDA enforcement. Among them: levying fines, giving subpoena powers to agency inspectors and searching through corporate records...