Justice Department 'Trying to Force' New York Times Reporter to Testify on Source in CIA Leaks Trial

Former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling was was indicted in January for telling New York Times reporter James Risen secret details of a failed CIA plot to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program in 2000. Though Risen never wrote about the plot in the Times, as the CIA convinced him it would harm national security, he did write about it in a 2006 book.