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Letter to the Attorney General about Vanessa Leggett

The Reporters Committee asked Ashcroft to withdraw the subpoena against the author, allowing her incarceration -- the longest ever for…

The Reporters Committee asked Ashcroft to withdraw the subpoena against the author, allowing her incarceration — the longest ever for a journalist on contempt charges — to end.

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