NY times versus Ashcroft

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-nyt0929,0,1733858.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines

this will prove to be interesting.

The New York Times sued Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday to block federal efforts to obtain two veteran reporters' phone records in a probe of who leaked information about Islamic charities tied to terrorists.The suit seeks to be part of a sweeping "leak" probe being conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago who also is trying to determine who disclosed the identity of Central Intelligence Agency agent Valerie Plame.

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