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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 24, 2007

Protecting Reporters

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - A civil lawsuit by the man accused of being responsible for 2001's anthrax scare threatens the confidentiality rights of journalists who learned his identity from government leaks.

FORUM COLUMN

By Peter Scheer

      Just when you thought it was safe for journalists to talk to confidential sources inside the government again , a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered five prominent reporters - Allan Lengel of the Washington Post; Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman of Newsweek; Toni Locy, formerly of USA Today and James Stewart of CBS News - to disclose the names of government sources to whom they promi...

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