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James Risen
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James Risen

James Risen covers national security for The New York Times. He was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2002 for coverage of September 11 and terrorism, and he is the coauthor of Wrath of Angels and The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and three sons.

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Keeping the Government's Secrets
Common Dreams, April 5, 2013
...of them on the Agency’s payroll—concealed the CIA role in the coup. As New York Times reporter James Risen (4/15/00) wrote almost 50 years after it might have made a difference: Western correspondents in Iran and Washington never reported that some...
The Best Defense interview: Steve Coll on White House leaks & what might happen
Foreign Policy Magazine, March 27, 2013
...which involved the Times ; a separate case involving former C.I.A. officer Jeffrey Sterling and Times reporter James Risen; and now the Sanger case. In the Risen and Sanger cases, the Justice investigations have involved reporting done for books, in...
'Worse Than Nixon': Pentagon Papers Lawyer on Obama, Secrecy and Press Freedoms
Common Dreams, March 20, 2013
..."The one case that is troublesome and is still out there as we speak is the case of James Risen, who was a journalist who was leaked national security information in respect to the warrantless wiretapping program, which was disclosed by The New York...
“I Reread Lenin’s and Stalin’s Works,” Candidates for President Haven’t Read Fiction (Video)
Aravot, January 11, 2013
...books Robert Kocharyan had read during the past 2-3 years – Robert Cooper’s “The Breaking of Nations,” James Risen’s “State of War,” Harvard Business School’s “Taking Control of Your Time,” Steven Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly...
Why Are Bob Woodward's WH Sources -- Or Woodward Himself -- Not On Trial Next To Bradley Manning?
OpEdNews.com, January 11, 2013
...NYT's alleged sources -- and threatening to imprison one of that paper's most accomplished investigative journalists, James Risen -- makes clear that this threat to journalism is far more real than theoretical. As the New Republic's Eliza Gray wrote in...
Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning? | Glenn Greenwald
One News Page, January 10, 2013
...NYT's alleged sources - and threatening to imprison one of that paper's most accomplished investigative journalists, James Risen - makes clear that this threat to journalism is far more real than theoretical. As the New Republic's Eliza Gray wrote in...
Readers Have a Stake in President Obama's Free-Speech Disconnect
New York Times, September 27, 2012
...the United States, relentlessly pursuing and initiating new cases against journalists and their sources. Consider the Times reporter James Risen — whose 2005 work with Eric Lichtblau on the federal government’s use of warrantless wiretapping was...
The Prosecution of Aaron Swartz Paints Obama's Justice Department as Needlessly Cruel and Capricious
AlterNet.org, January 15, 2013
...Jeffrey Sterling, who is accused of leaking information about a questionable CIA operation to the New York Times ’ James Risen, the government argued that leaking information to journalists -- functionally releasing information to the general public,...
The Prosecution of Aaron Swartz Shows Obama's Justice Department as Needlessly Cruel and Capricious
AlterNet.org, January 15, 2013
...Jeffrey Sterling, who is accused of leaking information about a questionable CIA operation to the New York Times ’ James Risen, the government argued that leaking information to journalists -- functionally releasing information to the general public,...
How the Deadly Prosecution of Aaron Swartz Represents the Extreme Security-State Tendencies of Obama's Justice Department
AlterNet.org, January 15, 2013
...Jeffrey Sterling, who is accused of leaking information about a questionable CIA operation to the New York Times ’ James Risen, the government argued that leaking information to journalists -- functionally releasing information to the general public,...
Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources—or Woodward himself—not on trial next to Bradley Manning?
Common Dreams, January 11, 2013
...NYT's alleged sources - and threatening to imprison one of that paper's most accomplished investigative journalists, James Risen - makes clear that this threat to journalism is far more real than theoretical. As the New Republic's Eliza Gray wrote in...
“I Reread Lenin’s and Stalin’s Works,” Candidates for President Haven’t Read Fiction (Video)
Aravot, January 11, 2013
...books Robert Kocharyan had read during the past 2-3 years – Robert Cooper’s “The Breaking of Nations,” James Risen’s “State of War,” Harvard Business School’s “Taking Control of Your Time,” Steven Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly...
Why Are Bob Woodward's WH Sources -- Or Woodward Himself -- Not On Trial Next To Bradley Manning?
OpEdNews.com, January 11, 2013
...NYT's alleged sources -- and threatening to imprison one of that paper's most accomplished investigative journalists, James Risen -- makes clear that this threat to journalism is far more real than theoretical. As the New Republic's Eliza Gray wrote in...
Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning? | Glenn Greenwald
Guardian.co.uk, January 10, 2013
...that the Obama DOJ - and threatening to imprison one of that paper's most accomplished investigative journalists, James Risen - makes clear that this threat to journalism is far more real than theoretical. As the New Republic's Eliza Gray wrote in...