Claim 233

Prosecutors planned to ask Risen only to confirm authorship of his book and related articles.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Prosecutors planned to ask Risen only to confirm authorship of his book and related articles.
Field: action
Value: Prosecutors sought only narrow confirmations
About: incident 2014-us-james-risen-subpoena-jeffrey-sterling
Source: Official: Prosecutors will subpoena reporter James Risen
Publisher: CBS News
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2014-01-16

Quotation from the source

prosecutors plan to ask Risen questions limited to confirming that he is the author of the book 'State of War' as well as two related New York Times articles in late 2001 and early 2002