A court is pressuring Catherine Herridge to give up her sources
The story is here:
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington held veteran investigative Catherine Herridge in contempt and ordered a fine of $800 a day until she reveals her sources for a 2017 story.
Cooper claimed he “recognizes the paramount importance of a free press in our society.” He also claimed he understands that confidential sources are vital to investigative journalism.
Uh huh.
Cooper’s excuse is that “the court ‘also has its own role to play in upholding the law and safeguarding judicial authority.’”
Cooper wrote in his order: “Herridge and many of her colleagues in the journalism community may disagree with that decision and prefer that a different balance be struck, but she is not permitted to flout a federal court’s order with impunity.”
“Washington” is, of course, Washington DC.
Many more details at the link, as well as here. The case will be appealed.
The original story Herridge was working on is here.
Whatever the truth about the school and its leaders, the way the federal government throws money around without doing its due diligence is truly scandalous.
it explains the firing and the filferage of notes, the only difference is obama drone,
chris cooper, didn’t jail her like catherine engelbrecht re voting irregularities
This feels like the horns of a dilemma:
On one horn, I think Hereige’s reporting is top notch and the story she was replrting on important to get out. And I support her protection of sources.
On the other horn, the government regularly “leaks” information to the press with no accountability. So the press just becomes stenographers for bureaucrats who want to break privacy laws etc.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is the source of so many perverted interpretations of the law that it could be argued that appearing before it is prima facie a denial of due process.
as I pointed out elsewhere, they subpoenaed ap’s entire directory, to avoid getting at brennan in the bomb plot, the subject of my novel among other things, they subpoened james rosen over source for korean sanctions, james risen over a bad company op that gave Iran a workable bomb design et al
She is a new victim of the Deep State, Leftists are never hunted down.
And they had her information so they already know what they want to know.
“She is a new victim of the Deep State, Leftists are never hunted down.” Skip
The ideological fanatics on the left are busily “cutting down all the laws” and in their folly imagine that the devil they’re creating won’t ever turn round upon them.
What can’t go on, won’t go on.
who will that bell that cat, the FBI apparently doesn’t care that chinese agents are compromising American servicemen, that was the gist of the report, much like the al harbi memo after 4/15 pointed out problems in the vetting of Saudi nationals, which was why they went after Beck, to find the source in Phil Haney’s unit, who died in 2020, under mysterious circumstances,
now James Risen still has learned no lessons from his treatment at the hand of the Obama DOJ, re the prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling, Orange Man baad for him still, or maybe that is the lesson, if you dangle the crocodile he will eat you last,
From wikipedia (yeah I know but usually this kind of stuff is accurate):
Appointed to federal bench by Obama
“Cooper served on the Obama/Biden transition team in 2008 as an advisor on Justice Department issues.”
I’m shocked, shocked
@ Abraxas > “Whatever the truth about the school and its leaders, the way the federal government throws money around without doing its due diligence is truly scandalous.”
Thanks for the link.
Remind me again who was president and VP when Chen’s school was sucking up US money.
Might explain why Chen was never charged with anything (per the CNN post) — maybe she should have left the journalists alone instead of getting herself back in the news.
God bless her!
Related:
“Blaze Journalist Arrested On 4 Charges Over Jan. 6 Presence At Capitol”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/journalist-faces-arrest-4-charges-over-jan-6-presence-capitol
The Lawless, the Bad and the Ugly.
Chicomms are everywhere, supported by demented Old Joe. There is a Chinese foreigner in training in every radiation oncology program in the USA,