James
Risen had already been writing about Osama bin Laden for several
years when the 9/11 hijackers brought the twin towers crashing down.
A national security reporter for the New York Times with a web of
sources within the CIA, Risen was well positioned to expose some of
the most crucial stories unfolding in the wake of the attacks, in the
early days of the so-called war on terror.
But
Risen found himself in the crosshairs of an administration that was
quick to use “terror” as an excuse to crack down on journalists
and whistleblowers who divulged information related to national
security.
In
this video, The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill speaks to Risen about
his yearslong battle with the Department of Justice — spanning both
the Bush and the Obama administrations — as well as his struggles
with his own editors at the New York Times.
Source,
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