Wilson Security even took the extraordinary step of hiring a private investigator to "aggressively" pursue the sources of stories in the Guardian and other media outlets.
Investigators are now pursuing the sources who provided Robert Novak, the syndicated columnist, and other journalists with information identifying Valerie Plame as a Central Intelligence Agency officer.
Those pursuing the sources project and the variation project also aim to determine which factors co-vary with answers cultural or ethnic group, socio-economic status, region of brain or cognitive processes implicated in answering the question, psychopathology, order of questions, framing of questions, etc.
During his interview with Glenn Greenwald on Thursday, Shep Smith suggested that the government only pursues the sources of leaks that make it look bad.
The clash prompted him to resign from his position as second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps intelligence, and pursue the open source paradigm elsewhere.
Kevin V. Ryan, the United States attorney for the Northern District of California, said in a statement that Graham had lied to agents "who were pursuing the original source of the illegal performance-enhancing drugs taken by many of the athletes tied to Balco".
Justice Department lawyers said in the brief that they had refrained from pursuing the iOS source code and signing key because they thought "such a request would be less palatable to Apple.
The U.S. Olympic Committee finalized its selection on Tuesday, moments after the Los Angeles City Council authorized Mayor Eric Garcetti to pursue the bid, according to a source close to the situation who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Mr. Gonzales has in recent weeks hinted that the Justice Department may move beyond subpoenas for journalists' sources, and pursue the criminal prosecution of reporters under espionage laws for publishing classified information.
