SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Washington Times reporter has been subpoenaed by a federal judge who wants him to reveal the sources for a story he wrote about an engineer convicted of conspiracy to export U.S. defense technology to China.
National security reporter Bill Gertz was ordered to appear before U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney this month, the newspaper reported Saturday. The judge has also requested e-mail messages, files and correspondences.
Gertz cited U.S. government sources in a 2006 story saying that Justice Department officials approved an indictment against Tai Mak and that four of Mak’s relatives would also be charged.
Mak’s attorneys had objected to Gertz’s story, contending the government violated a federal rule barring federal officials from giving information about grand jury proceedings to outsiders.
