Terrorist-tipping NYTimes wants Ruth Ginsburg's help
Michelle Malkin
Blabbermouths at the New York Times, who have been accused by federal prosecutors of tipping off Islamic charities fronting for terror, want Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to protect them:
The New York Times asked the Supreme Court yesterday to bar a federal prosecutor from reviewing the phone records of two of its reporters. The records, lawyers for The Times said, would allow the government to learn the identities of many of the reporters’ confidential sources.
The case arose from a Chicago grand jury’s investigation into who told the two reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, about actions the government was planning to take in 2001 against two Islamic charities. The United States attorney in Chicago, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, sought the reporters’ records directly from their phone companies, and The Times filed suit to stop him ....
... The key points:
As the New York Post reported last September, the Justice Department charged that "a veteran New York Times foreign correspondent warned an alleged terror-funding Islamic charity that the FBI was about to raid its office -- potentially endangering the lives of federal agents." Times reporter Philip Shenon was accused of blowing the cover on a Dec. 14, 2001, raid of the Global Relief Foundation.
"It has been conclusively established that Global Relief Foundation learned of the search from reporter Philip Shenon of The New York Times," U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wrote in an Aug. 7, 2002, letter to the Times' legal department. ...
NY Times Seeks Help From Ruth Bader Ginsburg Against Feds’ Investigation Into Tipping Off Terror Funding Charities
Michelle Malkin provides the background on this:
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Where do we draw the line on freedom of press? That seems to be what this comes down to. It is scary and despicable that the NY Times so often prints classified material for our enemies to read on their front pages. The NY Times have argued this kind of stuff is in the public interest. This is a lame and deploreable excuse in my eyes, but many were eager to buy it. Now, to actually leak information out to the enemies to warn them is nothing more than taking sides against our public interest in the war on terror. The people who did this have shown where their sympathies lie. They should definitely be investigated at the least. The actions of the NY Times to protect these traitorous individuals sends my rage meter off the scale.
