Back in 2014, the FBI worked with an attorney-turned-informant to try to stop a meeting between journalist James Risen and a source. This week on Intercepted: Risen, national security correspondent for The Intercept, reveals how the FBI used his reporting to try to catch a person they secretly called “the second Snowden.” Recordings of conversations between an FBI agent and the attorney expose the government’s efforts to prevent Risen from obtaining documents that they feared could expose new details about U.S. government spying.
Transcript coming soon.
This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by Intercepted.
Intercepted | Radio Free (2022-06-03T10:01:54+00:00) How the FBI Tried to Ambush My Meeting and Arrest a Source. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2022/06/03/how-the-fbi-tried-to-ambush-my-meeting-and-arrest-a-source-2/
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