re: #337 NJDhockeyfan

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Risen is a writer, one who obviously is allowing his Pulitzer to go to his head.

When he can prove he is as well-versed in espionage and the inner workings of federal intelligence services, having participated in them, then perhaps he might have a beef.

His hatred of Obma is, I think, a holdover from the Sterling case, where the Obama Justice Dept issued a new subpoena requiring him to testify in the case, after the original one had expired:

“Jeffrey Alexander Sterling was being investigated during the Bush administration. In 2010 he was indicted under the Espionage Act of 1917, one of the few people in US history whose alleged contact with a journalist was punished under espionage law.[6]

“Risen was subpoenaed in relation to the case in 2008.[7] He fought the subpoena, and it expired in the summer of 2009.[8] In what the New York Times called “a rare step,” the Obama administration renewed the subpoena in 2010.[8] In 2011 Risen wrote a detailed response to the subpoena, describing his reasons for refusing to reveal his sources, the public impact of his work, and his experiences with the Bush administration.[9]

“In July 2013 US Court of Appeals from the Fourth Circuit ruled that Risen must testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling. The court wrote “so long as the subpoena is issued in good faith and is based on a legitimate need of law enforcement, the government need not make any special showing to obtain evidence of criminal conduct from a reporter in a criminal proceeding.” Judge Roger Gregory disagreed with the rest of the judges, writing “The majority exalts the interests of the government while unduly trampling those of the press, and in doing so, severely impinges on the press and the free flow of information in our society.”[10]

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