James Risen | My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
03 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: James Risen | My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror James Risen, The Intercept Risen writes: "My case was part of a broader crackdown on reporters and whistleblowers that had begun during the presidency of George W. Bush and continued far more aggressively under the Obama administration, which had already prosecuted more leak cases than all previous administrations combined." READ MORE My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven years. The Obama administration was demanding that I reveal the confidential sources I had relied on for a chapter about a botched CIA operation in my 2006 book, “State of War.”...