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3 unusual facts about 2013 Department of Justice investigations of reporters


2013 Department of Justice investigations of reporters

Shamai Leibowitz, a contract linguist for the FBI, was convicted of leaking information to a blogger from embassy wiretaps.

Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA employee, was indicted for allegedly revealing classified information to journalist James Risen.

In 2013, the United States Department of Justice, under Attorney General Eric Holder, came under scrutiny from the media and some members of Congress for subpoenaing phone records from the Associated Press and naming Fox News reporter, James Rosen, a "criminal co-conspirator" under the Espionage Act of 1917 in order to gain access to his personal emails and phone records.



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