James Risen Raises Hell, Claims Bush, 'Right Wing Bloggers' Out to Get Him for Wrecking Anti-Terror Programs

admin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:49:00 +0000

Times reporter and anti-terrorist-program-wrecker James Risen, sensitive to "right wing" hate mail: "In 2006, I was awarded the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, for reporting on President Bush's illegal domestic wiretapping program....an organized campaign of hate mail from right wing groups with close ties to the White House was launched, inundating me with personal threats...Right wing pundits and bloggers supporting the Bush administration took to television and the Internet to call for the White House and the Justice Department to prosecute me for espionage."

Clay Waters

New York Times investigative reporter James Risen, notorious for exposing (along with colleague Eric Lichtblau) two anti-terrorist government programs during the Bush years, filed an affidavit in federal court in Virginia on Tuesday, refusing to comply with a subpoena that he identify a source in his 2006 book 'State of War' about a C.I.A. plan to feed Iran bad information to cripple its nuclear program.

EricLicthblau

James Risen Raises Hell, Claims Bush, 'Right Wing Bloggers' Out to Get Him for Wrecking Anti-Terror Programs