Have you heard of this leaker: Stephen Kim?

[The Straight Story]

Dear Friends & Supporters,

I am writing to ask for your support for my dear friend, a loyal and devoted public servant — Stephen Kim. As you may know, on August 27, 2010, government lawyers announced that they were charging Stephen with the crime of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information. The government is alleging that in 2009 Stephen divulged classified information to a journalist about how a foreign country would likely respond to proposed international sanctions.

Stephen’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has confirmed that even the government does not allege that Stephen revealed military secrets, operations or anything like Wikileaks. And yet government lawyers have persisted in pursuing these questionable charges. Unfortunately, despite extraordinary efforts, Stephen’s lawyers were unable to persuade the government to dismiss the charges. Faced with the impossible choice between admitting to the government’s accusations or defending himself against a federal criminal action, Stephen pleaded not guilty and hunkered down for the fight of his life.

http://stephenkim.org/legal-defense-trust/


The reason I ask is I am reading over the now unsealed warrant for his emails from Yahoo. It is rather interesting to read over the actual warrant:

http://tinyurl.com/lwa6n3h

It is 78 pages and filled with interesting items (and some arguments over the use and scope). There is specific mention of the reporter and records relating them and their org, etc and so on.

Not saying there is anything earth shattering, but it is educational and interesting.

[Mojorabbit]

1. marking to read later! nt

[The Straight Story]

2. Adding one more, they also sent one to google:

For google:

http://tinyurl.com/lwa6n3h

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Yes. He gave classified info to Fox reporter James Rosen

Rosen's goal was to undermine the administration and Kim knew it.

Let’s break some new, and expose muddle-headed policy when we see it – or force the administration’s hand to go in the right direction, if possible.

Wait, what? Is that what a News reporter is supposed to do, force the administration’s hand to guide American foreign policy to the reporter’s whim? Separate and apart from the DOJ investigation, this email seems to indicate that James Rosen is not just a News reporter, but an activist intent on pushing his own agenda, with the stated goal of manipulating U.S. foreign policy.

http://www.mediaite.com/columnists/doj-document-reveals-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-wanted-to-impact-u-s-foreign-policy/

[The Straight Story]

6. See post #5 - and thanks for the further info (nt)

[struggle4progress]

4. It's hard for me to know what to think of this: Mr Kim allegedly told Mr Rosen

that NK planned a nuclear test

If that's true, the US presumably learned about it through some covert means, which might be important to protect, and it's possible that NK might be able to deduce the means once NK knew the US knew NK's plans

So I expect the general practice in such games is to hold one's cards very very close to one's chest

Mr Kim, at LLL, presumably knew the rules in this regard

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5. Not so much, myself, interested in the case

But in seeing actual warrants related to getting records from providers.

Kim had 1500 emails in his Yahoo account, all of which were copied and sent to the FBI where a team of investigators would read them - and while their job was to look for ones relating to this case it was argued in the docs that other emails could/should be considered "in plain view" (like a warrant to search your house for shoes you stole and they see pot on the table).

Since they also got records from the reporter's email (which did not bear his name and was set up to communicate with sources) one might conclude (though I do not know for sure) that the same applies.

I would imagine the same goes for phone records. As I have noted before, you call your friend Joe whom you don't know is dealing pot and his number was found while investigating someone else then they could argue that your records are worth viewing (like a 6 degrees of separation sort of thing, but for warrants).