Tim Russert

Tim Russert was an American journalist hosted NBC's Sunday morning talk show Meet the Press for seventeen years until his death in June 2008. He died of a heart attack after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News.

On March 16, 2006, lawyers for former White House aide I. Lewis Scooter Libby confirmed they had issued subpoenas to reporters and media outlets as they prepare to face charges of obstruction of justice against the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.

According to CNN, subpoenas were sent to the New York Times, its former reporter Judith Miller, NBC's Tim Russert and Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper.

Affiliations

 * Steering Commitee, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Treasongate: Beyond Karl Rove
 * Trial of Scooter Libby

External articles

 * Scott Spoerry, "Journalists subpoenaed in leak case," CNN, May 22, 2004.
 * emptywheel, "The Scooter Libby Trial: The Russert Charges," Daily Kos, January 10, 2007.
 * Weldon Berger, "The press look away as Russert pancakes at the Libby trial," BTC News, January 27, 2007.
 * "CIA Leak Trial: NBC's Tim Russert Says He Didn't Tell Libby Valerie Plame Worked at CIA," Associated Press (FOX News), January 29, 2007.
 * Murray Evans, "Russert: Not Source of CIA Officer Leak," Associated Press (Forbes), January 30, 2007.
 * Paul Waldman, "Tim Russert: Stop the Inanity," The American Prospect, October 31, 2007.
 * Bob Somerby, "Without Precedent! This always happens, the pundits have said. As always, their statement is false," The Daily Howler, November 2, 2007.

External resources

 * Biography of Tim Russert.
 * Bob Somerby, The Daily Howler: archived articles about Tim Russert.