Legal Opinion
Wen Ho Lee v. Department of Justice
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 16, 2005No. Civ.A. 99-3380(RMC)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
COLLYER, District Judge.
The Court considers Plaintiff Wen Ho Lee’s request to hold Walter Pincus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post and a non-party to this lawsuit, in civil contempt. In the underlying action, Dr. Lee accuses various federal agencies of violating his rights under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a (2000), by “leaking” information about him to the news media in order to cover up their own security failures at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mr. Pincus is one of six reporters to whom Dr. Lee issued deposition subpoenas. On June…
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