Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Breaking....



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/us/times-reporter-james-risen-will-not-be-called-to-testify-in-leak-case-lawyers-say.html?smid=tw-share

Mr. Kurtzberg, a lawyer with Cahill Gordon & Reindel, said that while Mr. Risen ultimately may not have to testify, the Justice Department used the case to create court precedent that could be used to force journalists to testify in the future.

“I worry about future administrations,” he said. “Now there’s bad precedent, and not every executive branch in the future will exercise their discretion the way this one did. It didn’t have to go this way.”

  NYT
In these times, in this world, yes, it did.

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