Time Reporter Agrees to Testify About Leak
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Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper has avoided the threat of jail by agreeing to be interviewed by Justice Department prosecutors investigating whether White House officials illegally leaked the identity of a covert CIA operative to journalists.
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A computer systems technician secretly taped calls with a reporter for The Times, a spokeswoman said today.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  on  Thursday admitted that private investigators hired by its board  had acquired the phone records of several journalists in an  attempt to find a suspected boardroom leaker, the Financial  Times reported on Friday.
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TIME's reporter puts the President's speech in the context of Vietnamese history.
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A US reporter has said she is reluctant to divulge a confidential source to prosecutors investigating the leaking of an undercover CIA agent&#39;s identity.
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A defense lawyer came forward and admitted he is the person who leaked an FBI videotape to a TV reporter now facing jail time for protecting the source, court papers filed Wednesday said.
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Needham private investigator Ronald R. DeLia yesterday was asked to testify in Washington this month by congressional officials looking for explanations in the corporate-spying affair at Hewlett-Packard Co.
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The C.I.A. has agreed to make documents related to the destruction of interrogation videotapes available to the House intelligence Committee and to allow the agencyâs top lawyer to testify about the matter.
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Nelson Minar says he likes TechCrunch, but they're not journalists so be careful what you say to a TC reporter at a party. He cites two examples where he feels they acted unethically.  In one example, the reporter seems to use off the record comments exactly as they are supposed to. Most non-disclosures require that you keep the information confidential, but only until someone else discloses the information to you. If you get it from another source, on the record or off the record, the NDA is no longer enforceable. In this case they got confirmation from three off the record sources.  The other is just an example of a dumb story, not a violation of journalistic ethics. To say that a big company told a lie is hardly news. If it were about something material and not the age of one of the founders, then it would be newsworthy. But it's not an example of an integrity breach. (You can make a mistake and still have integrity. It's only a problem if you knew it was wrong when you wrote it.) Imho, too much is made of whether someone is a journalist or not. You read reports like this one in a highly reputed news organization, written by a journalist, that contain no information but leave a sensational impression for people who don't know the technology well enough to know that the reporter is talking nonsense. I'd rather read the opinion of a non-journalist who knows the subject and can defend his or her position, and clearly discloses their interest in the subject. At least I'd learn something, and no one would be misled into believing they were getting "news." However I do applaud what Nelson wrote because he had the guts to openly criticize TechCrunch. People from outside Silicon Valley must wonder why hardly anyone does, given that they are at or near the top of most lists ranking tech news sources. Why should they be immune to examination? Answer -- they shouldn't.
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(InfoWorld) - Two key figures in theÂ Hewlett-Packard spying scandalÂ will give their sides of the story in interviews on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday. Patricia Dunn, former chairman of the technology company who was charged with four felonies in California, and Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive officer, president and chairman, gave separate interviews on the subject, according to information released by CBS Friday. In her interview, Dunn says companies conduct such investigations often. "Every company has investigations. Investigations, by their nature, are intrusive," Dunn tells "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl. "If you think that Hewlett-Packard is the only company that has an investigations force -- which by the way, is peopled mostly with former law enforcement officers that do all kinds of private detective work, monitoring, posing as other people in order to solve problems to protect shareholder value -- you're being naÃ¯ve." Dunn tells Stahl she is innocent of the charges she and four others connected to the case are facing: using false pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy. Four other people face the same charges. Dunn made a brief court appearance Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose and will return to court Nov. 17 for an arraignment. HP is based in Palo Alto, which is also in Santa Clara County. Fiorina was also interviewed by Stahl to promote her book about her HP days, "Tough Choices: A Memoir," which is to be released next week. Fiorina says she was "shocked" to discover the lengths to which investigators allegedly went to probe the source of HP leaks to the media, including the use of pretexting -- using false pretenses -- to gain access to phone records of people who were targets of the investigation. "Well, I mean, I was shocked to hear about the depth and the range of some of those tactics and -- and shocked to hear that I might have been the subject of some of them," Fiorina said. Documents released Wednesday by the California Attorney General's Office show that Fiorina's phone records were among those accessed by private investigators via pretexting. Dunn, who succeeded Fiorina as chairman after Fiorina's firing in March 2005, launched an investigation to find the source of leaks of board deliberations prior to Fiorina's firing. Dunn authorized a second probe in 2006 after a news report in January that quoted an anonymous source on HP's board. Fiorina says in the "60 Minutes" interview that she sought to find the source of news leaks when she was chairman, but that was limited compared to what has been alleged under Dunn's chairmanship. "I wouldn't call what I did when I was faced with a leak -- I wouldn't even call it an investigation. I would call it a series of conversations with people. The reality is I knew very well who had talked outside the boardroom. Only one of the people who talked outside of the boardroom confessed. But, I knew who had done it. They knew who -- they had done it and so did everyone else on the board," Fiorina says, according to a release from CBS News.
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Former HP chief Carly Fiorina ordered the first leak investigation in January 2005, she says in her memoir. The New York Times
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The reveal of the identity of a Washington Post reporter's source to the prosecutor conducting the CIA leak inquiry is a development that provides investigators with a fact they have been pursuing in the nearly year-long probe.
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Vice-President Dick Cheney will be called to testify in the CIA leak case involving his ex-chief of staff, lawyers say.
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Two journalists must disclose  conversations with their confidential sources to a grand jury  investigating a leak that exposed the identity of a covert CIA  operative, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, testified Friday before a federal grand jury trying to determine who leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer.    Rove spent more than two hours testifying before the panel, according to an administration official who spoke only on condition of anonymity because such proceedings are secret...
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When it comes to covering politics, journalists often fall into the 'he said, she said' trap without taking the time to delve into the details. The nonpartisan FactCheck.org jumps into the informational breach. By Louise Witt.
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Television reporter Jim Taricani, who faces prison for refusing to identify the source of a secret FBI videotape, testified Thursday he heard that his source had bragged at a dinner party about the leak and hoped prosecutors would trace the man's identity themselves.