We Sorely Miss Katherine Graham.
‘Wash Post’ Drops Legal Battle For Cheney Records
By Joe Strupp
Published: January 31, 2007 10:15 AM
NEW YORK The Washington Post has backed off a legal fight against Vice President Dick Cheney, in which the paper had been demanding Secret Service logs of visitors to his office and residence, the New York Sun reported today.
A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Post, which had “prompted a flurry of press attention and court action just prior to the November election,” has been withdrawn, The Sun reported.
“We have decided not to pursue litigation further, though we believe we would have prevailed in the court of appeals as we did in the trial court,” a Post attorney, Eric Lieberman, said in an e-mail to The Sun. He said the paper had “a fundamental goal” of getting the records to inform voters before the election and failed in that regard.
Please find the article at Editor & Publisher.