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| James Rosen |
According to court documents, the Justice Department
obtained a portfolio of information about Fox News' James Rosen's conversations
and visits to the State Department. This included a search warrant for his
personal emails.
The effort follows that by the department to secretly obtain
two months of phone records from Associated Press journalists as part of a
separate leak probe. The department in this case, though, went a step further
-- as an FBI agent claimed there's evidence the Fox News correspondent broke
the law, "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator."
Michael Clemente, Fox News' executive vice president of
news, defended Rosen in a statement issued Monday afternoon.
"We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was
named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter,"
Clemente said. "In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally
defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a
free press."
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