NY Times reporter won't have to testify in CIA leak case

New York Times reporter James Risen will not be called to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer charged with giving him details about a failed operation in Iran.

Jeffrey Sterling stands accused of passing Risen information about a plan to disrupt Iran's nuclear program, The Times reports, information that prosecutors say Risen shared in his 2006 book State of War. In a hearing last week, Risen said that he had multiple sources and would not name any of them.

Risen was first subpoenaed by the Justice Department in 2008 under the Bush administration, and then again in 2011. The executive editor of The Times, Dean Baquet, is happy with the outcome. "I'm glad the government realizes that Jim Risen was an aggressive reporter doing his job and that he should not be forced to reveal his source," he said in a statement.

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