A Fox News reporter is being investigated for allegedly persuading a source to release sensitive security information.
The Washington Post reports the FBI recently obtained search warrants for reporter James Rosen's emails. This follows the Justice Department obtaining phone records from the Associated Press journalists.
Court documents published by the New Yorker magazine accuse Rosen of being, "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator."
Fox News' executive vice president of news defended Rosen saying: "We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter. 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."
The Feds say that in 2009 Rosen asked a State Department security contractor to reveal secret material about North Korea. The information was that North Korea had planned another nuclear testing in response to the pending U.N. sanctions.
In a statement on Monday, Rosen said, "As a reporter, I always honor the confidentiality of my dealings with all of my sources."
LA Times reports no reporter has ever been charged under the 1917 Espionage Act, a law that secures information of a military or political nature that a competing nation holds secret.
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