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"text": "And Josh Gerstein at Politico has the latest on the Times reporter James Risen’s legal difficulties over refusing to testify about a confidential source. (The Times itself has not covered it as heavily, which seems puzzling to me, but may make sense in some mysterious Timesian way.)",
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