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Reporters Concerned Over Conroy Case

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press mentions the Conroy/Narcosphere case in a press release announcing a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urging the department to adopt better guidelines in how its agents interact with reporters. The Committee writes:

“While journalists do not interact with officials from Homeland Security as much as with those from Justice (which includes the FBI), at least one recent incident involving a DHS employee has caused concern among journalists. After journalist Bill Conroy, who writes for The Narcosphere web site, wrote about a DHS memo that was leaked to him concerning modification of terrorism-related immigration records, agents appeared at his home and later at his office to question him about his source. The web site has called the incident a ‘botched attempt to intimidate’ a journalist.”

Read the full press release here and the letter to Secretary Chertoff here (PDF).

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