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Policy, discretion guide media sources probes

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:35:59 -0400

WASHINGTON - It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier.

Gov't presses ahead on another leak case

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:01:02 -0400

WASHINGTON - In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory - by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information.

Va ex-sailor pleads not guilty to espionage charge

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:14:16 -0400

NORFOLK, Virginia - A former sailor pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to additional charges that he passed classified documents to individuals he believed represented the Russian government.

Holder says he played no role in AP phone subpoena

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:12:26 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it was justified as part of an investigation into a grave national security leak.

Secrecy shrouds pretrial hearing in WikiLeaks case

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:35:55 -0400

FORT MEADE, Maryland - Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website.

GOP report faults State Dept. on Libya security

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:17:51 -0400

WASHINGTON - An interim report released Tuesday by House Republicans faults the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for security deficiencies at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, prior to last September's deadly terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.