0 effectively, holder was saying, or what the justice department investigated these folks with a search warrant ha was predicated on possible violations of the espionage act. but now holder is saying 0, no, no, we were never going to prosecute them under the espionage act. we were never going to prosecute the journalist. the source was in fact indicted for violations. ryan, there are a lot of questions here. and the media piece i think is an interesting turn of events, although perhaps maybe not surprising, fox news is now reporting that they will not attend the meeting with eric hoeder. as a washington bureau chief yourself, where do you stand on this in terms of it being on the record or off the record. we ve told them we won t attend off the record. you ve told them on the record that you won t attend an off-the-record meeting. i didn t specify whether it s on or off the record. so they re free to use it however they want. on background. i m fine with off-the-record me
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knew the power of her looks and was able to sort of connect with all of the people in the room male and female. give them that wink, that smile, and understood the power of her sexuality as well as the power of her information. and so, you know, clearly she makes an impression when she walks in the room. now, other tid bits. chapman says she has a holding company in europe, that she met a lot of people at the conference who were willing to give advice and help her raise money and she says that the world should really understand that new york is the place to do business because in her words, people care. suzanne? a very fascinating story behind the story. thank you. well, well known spies from the modern era have used classic espionage trade craft. arrested in 1985, navy warrant officer john walker would contact his kgb handlers by using dead drops leaving his information in a garbage bag at prearranged locations. he would collect his money the same way. cia officer aldridge ames
we have just learned that hurricane alex is gaining strength with winds up now to 90 miles an hour. it could slam into southern texas and northeast mexico just in a matter of hours. it is a category one storm right now. just shy of being upgraded to a category two. alex is unleashing heavy rains and winds along much of the gulf coast. now, that is creating delays in the oil cleanup operation in the hard hit region that it simply cannot afford. oil skimming ships have been forced back to shore by 12-foot waves now. and cleanup personnel were kept off louisiana beaches this morning because of those rough waters. officials are bracing for more oil to wash ashore depending on how powerful this storm gets. weenchts fully expect if there there is a storm surge we could see oil moving further inland or into marshes where we hadn t experienced that before. we have skimming task forces standing by to be deployed as soon as the weather abeats and we ll be out there hitting hard. we l