Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Jim Denton, Jim Denton Associates, Inc

Guests:
George Freeman, Assistant General Counsel – New York Times Company
Pundits:
Mike Hackett, Alrus Consulting
Bob Crowell, Crowell Group
Liz MacMenamin, Director of G'vmt Affairs Retail Assoc. of Nevada


"Not only did she never write the story but the other thing that is really interesting here is that for months and months while this case was being fought in the courts it was being fought on the grounds that the reason they needed her evidence was this was a violation of the Agents Identity Intelligence act, i.e. the people leaking to her, the people talking to her, who the prosecutor wanted, were committing a crime of outing a CIA agent and in the end, when the indictment came down, that wasn’t even mentioned. It was all about perjury and obstruction of justice and it strikes me that the balance is different, you know the balance may be they are all crimes but it seems to me that outing an agent, the need for that information is far greater than what I would call the typical lying case, which is what this has become."

- George Freeman, Assistant General Counsel – New York Times Company, discussing the Judith Miller / New York Times case.