[IP] NYT: U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brad Malin <b.malin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 2, 2006 2:15:42 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: NYT: U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records
If I was going to be a confidential source, I would do so through an
encrypted channel.
-brad
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/washington/02phones.html
U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: August 2, 2006
A federal prosecutor may inspect the telephone records of two New
York Times
reporters in an effort to identify their confidential sources, a federal
appeals court in New York ruled yesterday.
The 2-to-1 decision, from a court historically sympathetic to claims
that
journalists should be entitled to protect their sources, reversed a
lower
court and dealt a further setback to news organizations, which have
lately
been on a losing streak in the federal courts.
The dissenting judge said that the government had failed to
demonstrate it
truly needed the records and that efforts to obtain reporters’ phone
records
could alter the way news gathering was conducted.
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