At R. Kelly’s child porn last month, jurors were treated to a special screening of the tape that allegedly depicts the rapper urinating on a 13-year-old girl and having sex with her.
But what if that’s actually the better of the “porn at jury duty” scenarios?
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The CIA is again going after a New York Times scribe with a subpoena aimed at forcing James Risen to reveal his sources. How very Judy Miller! Risen’s book State of War includes a chapter that “asserted that the C.I.A. had unsuccessfully tried, beginning in the Clinton administration, to infiltrate Iran???s nuclear program,” and the government agency wants to know who told him so. Big difference this time around? The Times didn’t publish any of the questionable material in the book, which means its legal team is, technically, off the hook. Even more so, their decision not to run that copy, while publishing other parts, sounds like a calculated decision: Times spokeswoman Catherine J. Mathis won’t comment on why the paper didn’t publish anything from that chapter.