Reporter Questions Hillary Clinton's Involvement In Justice Department Investigation
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Reporter James Rosen from FOX News questioned the involvement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a Justice Department investigation into his reporting on North Korea.
Rosen, talking with Chris Stigall on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, said the former Secretary has never addressed his case, even following revelations that she kept her emails archived on a private server.
"No one has ever asked Hillary Clinton the question of what role she may have played in the referral of James Rosen and his exclusive reporting of North Korea at the State Department when she was Secretary of State to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation. I think it would be a fruitful area for inquiry...If they're going to go after reporters and deem reporters criminals, as happened in my case uniquely, I will be following with great interest to see how the Department of Justice concludes about the conduct of Hillary Clinton and her handling of classified information."
He recounted how he was not even aware of the investigation until it was uncovered by a competing media outlet.
"The Department of Justice filed a secret document with federal courts that I didn't learn about until the Washington Post broke it as a story in 2013 that designated me a criminal co-conspirator with someone whom the Government has identified as source of mine at the State Department. I never confirm or deny who my sources are. As a criminal co-conspirator with this person in a violation of the espionage act, basically because of the reporting I was doing at the time from the State Department on the subject of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. They also called me a flight risk in this secret document that they got a judge to sign, it was an application for a search warrant so that the government, without my knowing it, could rifle through my Gmail account and also obtain my phone records relating both to my phones, all the phones I used in my work at FOX News, in my office, in the State Department booth, in the White House booth, in the Pentagon booth, and even including the phone records of my parents on Staten Island."
Rosen stated the case was resolved with sweeping changes over the treatment of journalists within leak cases.
"It's the first time in modern American history that the federal government has branded a reporter a criminal for doing his job. It did lead to quite an outcry from the rest of the mainstream media and it marked a harmonic convergence of the Sun and the Moon when the other media are defending FOX News and me. The Department of Justice quickly retreated from this and issued new guidelines for how they'll treat reporters in national security cases [and] leak investigations."
His new book Cheney One on One: A Candid Conversation with America's Most Controversial Statesman was released this week.