wait, when who sues the NYT?

June 5, 2006 10:52 AM

Newsfilter: Wen Ho Lee to be paid $1.645 million from the government and 5 different news organizations. The government is paying for leaking personal information, and the news organizations (NYT, ABC, LA Times, the AP and the WaPo) are paying to avoid personal sanctions imposed on their reporters for failing to testify.
posted by delmoi (13 comments total)

hmm, if I type in the word Lee in Firefox, I'm brought to this.
posted by Busithoth at 10:54 AM on June 5, 2006

god damn george w and his pesky patriot act!
posted by obeygiant at 11:09 AM on June 5, 2006

fandango- Forget your meds this morning?
posted by xmutex at 11:16 AM on June 5, 2006

hmm, if I type in the word Lee in Firefox, I'm brought to this.

God damnit.
posted by delmoi at 11:20 AM on June 5, 2006

According to this the most likely leaker was one Notra Trulock
posted by delmoi at 11:22 AM on June 5, 2006

So I guess witch hunts cost more than they did in the 1600s.
posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 11:33 AM on June 5, 2006

I wouldn't be surprised if a Freeper like Trulock is involved. This government just can't seem to run a competent investigation where WMDs and terrorism are concerned. At the very least they take their sweet time when right-wing terrorists are involved (e.g., anthrax, Eric Rudolph, William Krar, etc.). A good text on this is Lane Crothers' Rage on the Right — the next terrorist attack will come in a suitcase nuke or bioagent stored in the back of pickup truck with a yellow ribbon magnet on the trunk and a Tony Keith playing in the tape deck.
posted by Mr. Six at 11:39 AM on June 5, 2006

Google "ricin incidents" (for instance) sometime. Guess which country has the most WMDs floating around in non-state actor hands.
posted by sonofsamiam at 11:45 AM on June 5, 2006

Trulock the leaker? Delmoi, that HuffPo piece framing the coverage as part of the 'get Clinton era' a pure fraud.

"Former Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, who had oversight of Los Alamos National Laboratory at the time and effectively ordered Lee's firing, is considered, by some, likely to have been the mysterious source who leaked Lee's name to reporters."

There's lots more about this if you really want it, but this deal was about saving Richardson's face as anything.
posted by Jos Bleau at 11:47 AM on June 5, 2006

duplicate post
posted by bim at 12:24 PM on June 5, 2006

What bim said. I was too lazy to search though.
posted by bardic at 12:37 PM on June 5, 2006

,i>So I guess witch hunts cost more than they did in the 1600s.

Well, inflation, you know...
posted by c13 at 1:12 PM on June 5, 2006

Is the settlement subject to tax?
posted by Juggermatt at 1:29 PM on June 5, 2006