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Classified portions of oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. (4th Cir.) will be closed to the public in the government's case against ex-CIA official Jeffrey Sterling, who is charged with violating the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information. Only arguments pertaining to the subpoena of New York Times reporter James Risen will be heard in open court.
The author of a book that has come under fire from Illinois prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald held a press conference today at the National Press Club in Washington, responding to Fitzgerald's threats of a libel lawsuit with the release of a new edition.
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who is certainly no stranger to the news media, has threatened to sue HarperCollins for false light or libel if it publishes a new edition of Peter Lance’s “Triple Cross, How Bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI."
