A dozen years before his recent sentencing to a 42-month prison term based on a jury’s conclusion that he gave classified information to a New York Times journalist, former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was in the midst of a protracted and fruitless effort to find someone in Congress willing to look into his accusations about […]
Archives for May 2015
AP Calls a Bill that Would Criminalize Sources Used for the Same Story a “Compromise”
May 26, 2015
Senate Intelligence Chair Richard Burr managed to get reporters to state that a bill that would criminalize their sources is a “compromise.”
Sterling Verdict Another Measure of Declining Government Credibility on Secrets
May 12, 2015
Even as Leonie Brinkema rejected the government’s claim that Jeffrey Sterling committed 7 discrete acts of Espionage, CIA’s former Directors were doubling down on frenzied claims about the importance of secrets.
Judge Compares Snowden to Ellsberg in Bid to Fix FISA Court
May 10, 2015
Judge Robert Sack compared how courts had successfully review the Pentagon Papers with his review of programs disclosed by Edward Snowden to argue the secret FISA Court needs some kind of adversarial review.
