Back in February 2008, a federal prosecutor in Bush’s Justice Department issued a subpoena to James Risen of the New York Times, seeking information about who provided him with classified information that appeared in his 2006 book State of War. The book gave information on CIA attempts to infiltrate Iran’s nuclear program and described a number of other highly classified details about covert efforts in that area. The step was widely cited as just another instance in which the supposedly ultra-secretive Bush administration was waging war on the press. But the Bush administration’s investigation of Risen came to naught and the subpoena it had issued expired last year.
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