Court: Prosecutor Fitzgerald May Demand 'NYT'/Miller Phone Records

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Court: Prosecutors May Demand 'NYT' Phone Records

Published: August 01, 2006 4:00 PM ET

NEW YORK A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that federal prosecutors investigating a leak about a terrorism funding probe can see the phone records of two New York Times reporters.

A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in a 2-1 vote that prosecutors had a valid interest in seeing who had contacted the reporters.

"We see no danger to a free press in so holding," Judge Ralph K. Winter wrote for the majority.

The case involved stories written in 2001 by Times reporters Judith Miller and Philip Shenon that revealed that the government planned to freeze the assets and search the offices of two Islamic charities, the Holy Land Foundation and Global Relief Foundation.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald then opened a grand jury probe into the source of the newspaper reports, claiming the reporters' phone calls to the charities seeking comment had tipped them off about the investigation.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002915992


Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

[Cocoa]

1. it's weird how two of Fitz's cases involve Judith Miller

[panader0]

2. Finally, something about Fitz!

When, when, when will the next indictments come down? Before Nov. please.