You call that a secret? Plugging leaks with subpoenas.
IN OCTOBER someone emailed the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a four-page "information paper," dated December 20, 2005, that addresses "the permissibility of photographing enemy prisoners of war ... and detainees in the Iraqi Theater of Operations." The document, which was labeled "SECRET" at the top and bottom of...

National Press Club Defends Subpoenaed Reporters.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club today announced its opposition to the U.S. Army's subpoenas of Oakland, Calif., freelance journalist Sarah Olson and Honolulu Star Bulletin reporter Gregg Kakesako. The subpoenas call for the reporters to testify at the Feb. 5 court martial of...

Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit to Obtain Documents Related to Federal Investigations Involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit Seeks Grand Jury Subpoenas Issued to Governor's Office, State Agencies WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an open records lawsuit against the office of Governor...

Company Watch - Northwest Airlines.
Apr 2, 2007 Northwest Flight Attendants Blocked From Striking. Flight attendants at Northwest Airlines may not strike, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, affirming a lower court ruling and lifting a cloud hanging over the bankrupt carrier. Mar 29, 2007 US DOJ subpoenas Northwest...

Stop the stonewalling.
Byline: The Register-Guard The White House, not Congress, bears primary responsibility for the looming constitutional confrontation over the firings of eight federal prosecutors. President Bush could have - and should have - avoided this showdown by ordering his political adviser, Karl Rove, and other top...

The further legal consequences of Catholic clerical sexual abuse.
In 2002, The Boston Globe broke the story about Catholic clerical sexual abuse, (1) revealing allegations against Father Joseph Geoghan, the settlement of fifty lawsuits by the Archdiocese of Boston amounting to approximately $10 million, and a number of incidents of pedophilia that occurred between 1962 and 1995. The...

The Pentagon vs. press freedom.
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO journalist Sarah Olson received a subpoena to testify in the February 2007 court-martial of U.S. Army Lt. Ehren Watada, a man of conscience who spoke out against the Iraq war and refused to participate in it. Commanders at the Pentagon were so eager to punish Watada...

Kind of confidential: with federal judges rejecting reporters' promises to keep silent about conversations with confidential sources, news organizations are warning sources that pledges of anonymity aren't absolute. Just what does confidentiality mean in this turbulent era?
In late March, Jim Taricani met for the first time with an anonymous source, who showed the investigative reporter some documents. The papers were critical to a story he was covering. The two discussed the documents for about an hour, and then Taricani, who works for Providence, Rhode Island's...

The governmental attorney-client privilege: whether the right to evidence in a state grand jury investigation pierces the privilege in New York State.
I. INTRODUCTION Whether a New York State government official represented by a government attorney can invoke the evidentiary attorney-client privilege when faced with a state grand jury subpoena has not been explicitly addressed by either New York State courts or the New York State Legislature. If a...

Fraud part of jury probe; Trapasso case expansive.
Byline: Milton J. Valencia; Scott J. Croteau WORCESTER - He's been a face on the city's Election Commission and a player in local political circles, the guy friends know as the character of the group. But in the last several months Lawrence Trapasso, a big,...