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Wen Ho Lee (; born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwan-born Taiwanese American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. A federal grand jury indicted him of stealing secrets about U.S. nuclear arsenal for the People's Republic of China (PRC) in December 1999. After federal investigators were unable to prove these initial accusations, the government conducted a separate investigation and was ultimately only able to charge Lee with improper handling of restricted data, one of the original 59 indictment counts, to which he pleaded guilty as part of a plea settlement. In June 2006, Lee received $1.6 million from the federal government and five media organizations as part of a settlement of a civil suit he had filed against them for leaking his name to the press before any formal charges had been filed against him.
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James Risen on Countdown with Keith Olbermann
In addition to his two interviews with NSA whistle blower Russell Rice, Olbermann also had on NY Times journalist James Risen who first broke the story about this program in 2005.
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Has Obama Turned Into Cheney?
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- Published: 29 Jun 2011
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We take a look at what the Obama administration is doing to James Risen, the award winning New York Times reporter, who they're trying to force to reveal his source. In his book "State of War" he described a CIA effort to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions by secretly providing them with faulty blueprints. He also reported on waterboarding of Iraq detainees, and broke the story of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf says in Obama pursuing him so vigorously, has Obama finally become Dick Cheney?
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The Alyona Show: In case you missed it- full show 6/28/11
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- Published: 29 Jun 2011
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We'll look at Greece where violence has broken out as protestors and riot police clash a day ahead of a vote on austerity measures to keep the country from defaulting, and what this means for the US. Then, what will future of the war in Afghanistan look like and who's going to be in command of the war effort? Next, we'll ask if Obama has finally turned into Cheney, in his legal battle against reporter James Risen. And then don't miss our happy hour segment.
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Thom Hartmann: Is Pres. Obama illegally spying on US journalists?
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- Published: 24 Jun 2011
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Stephen Webster, Senior Editor-Raw Story, joins Thom Hartmann. Is President Obama illegally spying on American journalists? That's what Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times reporter James Risen says in an affidavit he filed earlier this week. After publishing a book detailing the CIA's mission to sabIran's nuclear program - Risen claims the CIA started monitoring his incoming and outgoing calls to discover his sources. His surveillance began under the Bush administration and continued through the Obama administration. Risen argues that the CIA campaign against him will, "have a chilling effect on freedom of the press in the United States." So how is this allowed to happen in a nation that's supposed to have freedom of the press?
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James Risen on President Bush's wiretapping
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- Published: 23 Sep 2007
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James Risen, co-author of the New York Times blockbuster article exposing warrant-less spying on Americans, appeared on NBC's Today Show yesterday morning. Risen has published a new book, "State of War", that includes Bush's NSA Wiretap program along with other damning revelations. (1-4-06)
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US Intelligence: The Inside Story (video)
ORIGINALLY RECORDED January 31, 2006 SPEAKER: James Risen, National Security Correspondent, The New York Times; Author, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and Bush Administration" PRESIDER: Dana Priest, National Security Reporter, The Washington Post www.cfr.org
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Thom Hartman: The Big Picture Rumble
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- Published: 31 May 2011
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With Guy Benson - Political Editor of Townhall.com and radio host of The Guy Benson Show, Erikka Knuti - Democratic Strategist and - Brian Darling - Director of Government Studies at Heritage - as well as columnist at Human Events. Questions this week: --So now that Paul Ryan's "roadmap to throwing Grandma off a cliff" is costing Republicans seats in Congress - isn't it time for the Party to dump Paul Ryan and the rest of the Tea Party? --Republicans in the Senate used a procedural move to keep the Senate in session through the Memorial Day recess just to make sure the President can't make a recess appoint of Elizabeth Warren - Clearly - she's qualified for the job - so why are Republicans SO afraid of her? --The New Jersey Supreme Court smacked down Governor Chris Christie - calling his massive cuts to education unconstitutional - shouldn't education remain a part of the commons - instead of just another industry that profiteers can carve up - water down - and sell back to us for a high-profit? --The Commodity Futures Trading Commission slapped charges against two oil speculators for their role in the 2008 oil price surge - So doesn't this case of a few rich guys manipulating the price of the world's most important resource show that laissez faire economics doesn't work - and that the Tea Party and the Republicans just don't know what they're talking about? --This week - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times reporter James Risen was subpoenaed by the <b>...</b>
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Behind the Byline: James Risen
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- Published: 16 Dec 2008
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From his perch at the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James Risen has been at the forefront of uncovering some of the Bush administration's worst abuses of power. As a result, he has been hauled before a grand jury and pressured by the government to name his anonymous sources. A few days after this interview was filmed, one of Risen's key sources, Thomas Tamm, was featured on the cover of Newsweek as "The Fed Who Blew the Whistle." Risen spoke with ANP about the rise in executive power during Bush's tenure and how the media failed to be vigilant in the wake of 9/11.
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Jailed Journalists
Media Criticism of the Establishment is Under Siege, despite the US being founded on a Constitution that includes the freedom of the press.
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END WAR NYT Rehashes Afghan MIneral Wealth As Propaganda To Prolong Occupation Or China Gets It
How To Go To Heaven: www.jesus-is-savior.com tarpley.net New York Times Planted Story on Afghan Mineral Wealth Designed to Prolong US Occupation, Spur Neocon-Backed Petraeus Presidential Candidacy [Translate] Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net June 17, 2010 To provide a new and spurious economic looting argument for making the US occupation of Afghanistan virtually endless, and to advance the candidacy of General David Petraeus as the principal neocon warmonger candidate for president on the Republican ticket in 2012 -- these are the purposes of the story planted in the June 13, 2010 New York Times under the byline of James Risen, who is acting as stenographer for the neocons in the great tradition of his predecessor Judith Miller. In retrospect, this article may well be seen as the opening gun of an overt push to place General Petraeus in the White House in 2012 as the new Field Marshal von Hindenburg. According to this story, a Pentagon survey has determined that Afghanistan possesses at least $1 trillion worth of valuable minerals, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold, and lithium -- with lithium being especially valuable because it is used in batteries for computers and for the new designs of electric automobiles. Of course, none of this is news, as the article itself concedes. The surveys done by the US occupation authorities over the last several years are explicitly based on careful studies done by the Soviets during their own occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s <b>...</b>
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Jesus Christ is Risen Today - Brass Quintet & Organ
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- Published: 09 May 2011
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Organist Timothy Degen and Brass Quintet & Timpani perform "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" (Tune: Easter Hymn) by James Biery as the Easter Processional Hymn on April 24, 2011 at Faith Lutheran Church, Vista, CA. This hymn is #457 in Lutheran Service Book This arrangement for Brass Quintet, Timpani, & Organ by James Biery is published by MorningStar Music Publishers. Please rate and leave comments!
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2011-04-24 "He Is Not Here! He Is Risen!" - Sunday Sermon by Dr. James Hill
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"He Is Not Here! He Is Risen!" - Sunday Sermon by Dr. James Hill www.southvillesalembaptist.org
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Catching Osama: What Should US Do If Bin Laden Is Caught?
Complete video at: fora.tv Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright weighs in on what the United States should do with Osama bin Laden should he ever be caught. Wright suggests having the al-Qaeda leader tried globally and then sentenced by Sharia law. Complete video at: fora.tv Panel Topic: Terrorism: A Decade After. Featuring Lowell Bergman, Karen Greenberg, James Risen, Sebastian Rotella, Dale Watson, and Lawrence Wright. The 3-day Logan Symposium now in its 5th year, serves a number of key constituencies. Culling together a group of dedicated investigative reporters, academics, philanthropists, media experts and graduate students, the invite only event is an industry must. Once a humble commitment to host an annual lecture in the name of its benefactors, the Logan Symposium quickly rose in popularity as "one of the most influential events of its kind," according to the Seattle Times. Covered and attended by a veritable 'who's who' in investigative reporting, the conference dissects controversial topics in the field, hosts internationally renowned panelists, and examines key factors of change in investigative reporting. Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
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13 year old singing For the First Time cover (The Script) by Risen and Saved RAS
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- Published: 30 Sep 2011
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So there we were, checking out some sound equipment in our local store. So, we decided to record ourselves doing some singing. This is my brother, Vamkire Trannel taking on one of his favorite songs: For the First Time by the Script. I hope you like it!!!! PS We really hope you do subscribe!!! Merci beacoup! Prends soin de toi! God bless!!! NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED
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Countdown: James Risen on the NSA Spying on Journalists
Keith talks to James Risen about the statements made by Russell Tice and whether he was the subject of NSA wiretapping. Risen says he knows for sure the FBI and the NSA had his phone records.
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9/11 - The Toronto Hearings - 09/08/11 - James Gourley & Lorie Van Auken - 08:52AM.flv
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- Published: 11 Sep 2011
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9:00 -- 9:30 Moderators: Opening Remarks 9:30 -- 9:45 James Gourley: Introduction to the Hearings and the Panel 9:45 -- 10:15 Lorie Van Auken (Video): Statement by a Jersey Widow The Toronto Hearings were held at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, during the 10th anniversary weekend of 9/11. September 11, 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the events in New York and Washington that have played a dramatic role in modern history. These events have provided a pretext for a War on Terror that has replaced the Cold War as a global conflict framework within which military invasions and occupations have taken place, as well as violations of international law and human rights and a widespread assault on the civil rights crucial to democracies. Global military spending, which began a rapid downswing after the end of the Cold War, has, with the help of the official account of the 9/11 attacks, risen to Cold War levels and continues to rise. The focus on military solutions to complex human problems has sidetracked humanity at the very moment when international cooperation is most required to address genuine challenges that humanity faces. In the meantime, the credibility of the official reports on the 9/11 attacks (by the 9/11 Commission, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other government or government-appointed agencies) has been questioned by millions of citizens in the United <b>...</b>
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Acoustic Cover of Chris Tomlin's I Will Rise by Deborah Paul & James Paul
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- Published: 05 Sep 2011
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I Will Rise (Lyrics) There's a peace I've come to know Though my heart and flesh may fail There's an anchor for my soul I can say "It is well" Jesus has overcome And the grave is overwhelmed The victory is won He is risen from the dead [Chorus:] And I will rise when He calls my name No more sorrow, no more pain I will rise on eagles' wings Before my God fall on my knees And rise I will rise There's a day that's drawing near When this darkness breaks to light And the shadows disappear And my faith shall be my eyes Jesus has overcome And the grave is overwhelmed The victory is won He is risen from the dead [Chorus:] And I will rise when He calls my name No more sorrow, no more pain I will rise on eagles' wings Before my God fall on my knees And rise I will rise And I hear the voice of many angels sing, "Worthy is the Lamb" And I hear the cry of every longing heart, "Worthy is the Lamb" [x2] [Chorus:] And I will rise when He calls my name No more sorrow, no more pain I will rise on eagles' wings Before my God fall on my knees And rise I will rise
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Jesus is Risen, and Alive Forevermore!
"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." - Matthew 28:6 www.thelionofjudah.org Pastor Charles Lawson Temple Baptist Church - Knoxville, TN
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Rev. Douglas James Cottrell PhD: 2011-2012 predictions- Japan, Lemuria rising, life in New Earth
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- Published: 29 Sep 2011
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A DTM session was recently completed touching upon various topics including the Earth changes and specifically how they will continue to affect Japan. This DTM excerpt can be found on Rev. Douglas' blog, as linked below: douglasjamescottrell.blogspot.com A Cliff's Notes summary: * There will be a continuating crescendo or speeding up of earthquakes in Japan and North America, the latter being influenced by the former which will be its precursor, since the two locations are on different sides of the same tectonic plate. There will also be resulting tsunami from these quakes which will be more violent and longer in duration affecting the country and surrounding area. * Earthquakes will lead to volcanic activity which will affect the North American regions, then south Japan also. * Earthquakes cause a reverberation that can and will affect the opposite side of the Earth from which they occur; the Pacific ocean can be seen as a bowl- one side of the plate is pushed down and the other will be pushed up therefore there will be a lifting up of the sea floor in areas (and vice versa), evidence of which will be plains or areas in the Pacific that jut above the water. * The East coastline of Japan will shrink but it will be some time (a year or more) before this will be extensive. Many Japanese will flee to China ("the greater land masses in the West"). * Due to rise of sea floor in certain areas, there will be sightings of submerged structures; people will be able to look from the <b>...</b>
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Part 5 - Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Chs 27-36)
Part 5. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Stewart Wills. Playlist for Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad: www.youtube.com
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Wise Men cover (James Blunt) Acoustic by RAS
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- Published: 24 Jul 2011
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No copyright infringement intended.
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Part 3 - Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Chs 13-19)
Part 3. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Stewart Wills. Playlist for Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad: www.youtube.com
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes Movie Trailer 3 Official (HD)
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bit.ly - Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! Rise of the Planet of the Apes theaters on August 5th, 2011. Cast: James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo, Andy Serkis In the film's story, a single act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a war unlike any other -- and to the RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. It stars James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo and Andy Serkis as Caesar. Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark are producing for Chernin Entertainment under its pact with Fox. Rupert Wyatt is directing from a screenplay by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, who are also producing. Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer courtesy 20th Century Fox.
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James Risen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for The New York Times who previously worked for the Los Angeles Times. He has written or co-written many articles concerning U.S. government activities and is the author or co-author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a book about the American public debate about abortion.
Bearden, Milton, and James Risen. The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB. New York: Random House, 2004. ISBN 0345472500 (10). ISBN 9780345472502 (13). (Also available as an E-book.)
Risen, James. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. New York: Simon & Schuster (Free Press imprint), 2006. ISBN 0743270665 (10). ISBN 9780743270663 (13).
–––, and Judy Thomas. Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War. Perseus Publishing, 1999. ISBN 9780465092734 (13).
Wen Ho Lee - Chinese-American Los Alamos scientist accused of espionage
COINTELPRO - FBI counter-intelligence program investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States
ECHELON - secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis network run by the UKUSA Community, capturing radio and satellite communications, telephone calls, faxes and e-mails nearly anywhere in the world
Carnivore - FBI wiretapping of e-mail and internet communications through proxy computers installed at Internet Service Providers
CALEA - to make clear a telecommunications carrier's duty to cooperate in the interception of communications for Law Enforcement purposes, and for other purposes
Operation Mockingbird - alleged Central Intelligence Agency operation to influence domestic and foreign media
Espionage Act of 1917 - WWI law used in the 21st century to punish communication with journalists
Karr, Rick. *Web Exclusive: Rick Karr on Government Secrecy. Bill Moyers Journal. PBS. February 29, 2008. Accessed December 16, 2008. (Vodcast.)
Scheer, Robert. The New York Times Convicted Wen Ho Lee">No Defense: "How The New York Times Convicted Wen Ho Lee". The Nation, October 5, 2000.
Risen, James. "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts". The New York Times, December 16, 2005.
–––. "George Bush Insists That Iran Must Not Be Allowed to Develop Nuclear Weapons. So Why, Six Years Ago in the Clinton Administration, Did the CIA Give the Iranians Blueprints to Build a Bomb?". The Guardian, 5 January 2006, (Extract from State of War.)
–––. "Global Agenda 2003". Speech presented at the University of Delaware, May 7, 2003.
James Risen – Index of articles published in The New York Times, Times Topics''.
"The 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners: National Reporting: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau" – Biographies and photographs of these journalists for The New York Times hosted on the official Pulitzer Prize Website.
Background
Risen grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, graduated from Brown University in 1977, and received a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1978. He is now an investigative reporter for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1998. Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2006 for his stories about President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. He was also a member of The New York Times reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for coverage of of 9/11 and terrorism. Risen has written three books: Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War (Basic Books) (Judy Thomas, co-author) 1998; The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB (Random House) (Milt Bearden, co-author) 2003; and State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (The Free Press) 2006. State of War was a New York Times bestseller. In 2007, Risen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Reports on government surveillance programs
Risen and Eric Lichtblau were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2006 for a series of controversial investigative reports that they co-wrote about the National Security Agency's surveillance of international communications originating or terminating in the United States codenamed "Stellar Wind" and about a government program called Terrorist Finance Tracking Program designed to detect terrorist financiers, which involved searches of money transfer records in the international SWIFT database. The Associated Press reported on May 24,2011 that Risen is being called as a witness in the Jeffrey Sterling trial for alleged leaks of classified information.
The White House Press Office issued a statement on August 6, 2007 that the New York Times article on the Congressional and Presidential approval of a six-month extension of terrorism monitoring in the United States was misleading.
State of War
Risen is the author of the book State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (January 2006). The book makes numerous controversial allegations about Central Intelligence Agency activities. It alleges that the CIA carried out an operation in 2000 (Operation Merlin) intended to delay Iran's nuclear weapons program by feeding it flawed blueprints for key missing components - which backfired and may actually have aided Iran, as the flaw was likely detected and corrected by a former Soviet nuclear scientist the operation used to make the delivery.While doing research for the book, Risen's email and phone connections with former CIA Operations Officer Jeffrey Alexander Sterling were monitored by the US federal government. The US federal government also obtained Risen's credit and bank records. The CIA Public Affairs Office issued a press release indicating that Risen's book contains serious errors in every chapter.
Risen writes in State of War that, "Several of the Iranian [CIA] agents were arrested and jailed, while the fate of some of the others is still unknown", after a CIA official in 2004 sent an Iranian agent an encrypted electronic message, mistakenly including data that could potentially identify "virtually every spy the CIA had inside Iran". The Iranian was a double agent and handed over the information to Iranian intelligence. This also has been denied by an intelligence official. Risen also alleges that the Bush Administration is responsible for transformation of Afghanistan into a "narco-state", that provides a purported 80% of the world's heroin supply.
The publication of this book was expedited following the December 16, 2005 NSA leak story. The timing of The New York Times story after the Iraq election in mid December 2005 is a source of controversy since the story was delayed for over a year. The New York Times story appeared two days before a former NSA employee, dismissed in May 2005, requested permission to testify to two Congressional intelligence oversight committees. Byron Calame, the Public Editor of The New York Times, wrote in early January 2006 that two senior Times officials refused to comment on the timing of the article. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also conducted an investigation of the sources of the security leak involving the NSA. Risen says this book is based on information from a variety of anonymous sources, that he would protect.
The issue of journalists protecting their anonymous sources was widely discussed during this time period due to the Valerie Plame affair. In that case, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed for refusing to reveal a source for a story of hers. The Attorney General hinted in a Washington Post article on May 22, 2006 that journalists may be charged for any disclosure of classified national security information. President George W. Bush, in a June 25, 2006 news conference, was critical of the publication of information of classified programs by the New York Times.
United States v. Sterling
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, part of Obama's crackdown on whistleblowers and "leaks".Risen was subpoenaed in relation to the case in 2008. He fought the subpoena, and it expired in the summer of 2009. In what the New York Times called "a rare step," the Obama administration renewed the subpoena in 2010. 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.
The suspect, later identified as Dr. Wen Ho Lee, pled guilty to a single charge of improper handling of national defense information, the 58 other counts against him were dropped, and he was released from jail . No espionage charges were ever proven. The judge apologized to Dr. Lee for believing the government and putting him in pretrial solitary confinement for months.
On September 26, 2000, the New York Times apologized for significant errors in reporting of the case. Dr Lee and Helen Zia would later write a book, My Country Versus Me, in which he described Risen and Garth's work as a "hatchet job on me, and a sloppy one at that". He points out numerous factual errors in Risen & Gerth's reporting. The Times was one of five newspapers, including also the Los Angeles Times, which jointly agreed to pay damages to settle a lawsuit concerning their coverage of the case and invasion of privacy.
Views on KGB's involvement in JFK assassination debate
In a 1999 article in the New York Times, regarding revelations from the Mitrokhin Archives of long term KGB efforts to promote the theory that there was a CIA conspiracy to assassinate President John Kennedy, Risen writes, "The K.G.B.'s clumsy propaganda campaign never had much of an impact on the debate over the Kennedy assassination in the United States."
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