“In part, it was surrendering to reality,” the ex-prosecutor said of Holder’s decision to exempt Risen from the potential of contempt for refusing to reveal his sources. “It would be hard to generalize from this and say in future leak cases we don’t need to even try to speak to a reporter,” he added.Įliason also pointed out that Risen was highly unlikely to ever name his source, so the effort to force him to testify amounted to a kind of sideshow that ultimately was going to leave the prosecution case right where it ended up. “It was a high degree of difficulty, but they had a lot of evidence pieced together, which turned out to be enough.”
“They had a pretty decent circumstantial case” said Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches law at George Washington University. However, other lawyers said it was unclear whether the government’s success against Sterling without much help from Risen signaled that approach could be duplicated or whether it was unique to the situation at hand. “As this verdict proves, it is possible to fully prosecute unauthorized disclosures that inflict harm upon our national security without interfering with journalists’ ability to do their jobs,” the attorney general said in a statement. Soon after the jury returned its string of nine guilty verdicts in the CIA leak case Monday, Holder claimed the result vindicated his effort to pursue such prosecutions without trying to force testimony from unwilling reporters.
The recalibration was prodded not by Risen’s predicament or a sudden bout of introspection, but by a political firestorm that broke out in 2013 over prosecutors’ aggressive investigations of leaks to the Associated Press and Fox News. Or- The Walking Dead, in which Rick breastfeeds Judith and it's strangely normal.The attorney general’s action was consistent with a series of moves over the past year and a half in which he sought to demonstrate greater sensitivity to the concerns of journalists. With Lori gone however, it falls to Rick to fill that role. What she needs is the kind of comfort that only a mother can provide.
When Judith gets especially cranky, it seems that no amount of formula or rest can calm her down.
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