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...That's why so many were surprised last week when Norman Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time Inc., said he would reveal some confidential information about a big story. In a case involving TIME magazine White House correspondent Matthew Cooper, Pearlstine agreed to comply with a federal subpoena and surrender Cooper's notes and files relating to a story he had written that is part of an investigation into the disclosure of a CIA operative's identity. Time Inc. had appealed the case all the way to the Supreme Court, but when the court declined last week to hear...
Will Time Inc.'s actions alter the rules of journalism? Some think so. "This is going to be open season on journalists," says Dalglish. "Litigators are out there thinking, Why not subpoena them? I'm probably going to win." In Pearlstine's view, Time Inc.'s decision is a narrowly framed one that applies only to a case that involves a federal grand jury with access to secret testimony about a national-security issue. He says he still believes in the value of confidential sources--and fighting to keep them that way as far as the law allows...
...allegations posed disturbing questions about the Administration's relationship with private organizations that have reportedly been funding supplies for the contra rebels since Congress cut off aid in 1984. In the absence of a satisfactory response from the Administration, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week said it would subpoena testimony from those involved, including, if necessary, officials in the White House. President Reagan declared that Hasenfus and his companions were volunteers in a noble cause. "Some years ago many of you spoke approvingly of something called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade," he told reporters, referring to the unit of American...
...case in London, is one thing. But now Greenberg faces serious charges of cutting corners to make AIG's financial might appear greater than reality, and in so doing ripping off shareholders who have lost nearly $50 billion in the value of their stock since Spitzer served the first subpoena. In Spitzer's suit, he alleges that AIG, through bogus transactions, inflated the reserves it keeps to pay claims by hundreds of millions of dollars; that Greenberg repeatedly directed AIG traders late in the day to buy AIG shares to prop up its price; and that AIG booked underwriting losses...
...March, Harvard had received at least one “pre-subpoena letter” from the RIAA warning that the University would likely have to reveal one or more such names...