AUSA Threatens 60 Minutes in Bell Case

Aimee Farr aimee.farr at pobox.com
Sat Mar 3 18:48:53 PST 2001


Young said:

> From: http://cryptome.org/jdb-doj-cbs.htm
>
> "An Assistant US Attorney in Seattle has threatened a CBS
> 60 Minutes reporter who is investigating the prosecution
> of James Dalton Bell in Western Washington District Court,
> warning the reporter that a subpoena will be issued for his
> information if he continues to investigate the case and its
> broader ramifications.
>
> According to a confidential source, AUSA Robb London,
> the prosecutor of the Bell case, warned 60 Minutes reporter
> Adam Ciralsky that a subpoena would be issued to Ciralsky
> for information about persons he had spoken to about the
> case and what he had learned if Ciralsky continued with
> his investigation."

Your site:
<snip> "Unrelated to the Bell case, Ciralsky has been involved in a
long-running legal battle with the Central Intelligence Agency in a dispute
about his former employment in the legal department of the agency." <snip>

Bit of an understatement.

http://antipolygraph.org/litigation/ciralsky/ciralsky-complaint.shtml

By way of contrast: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/03/ag030101.html


-Aimee





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