City Drops Subpoena to Seattle Times
City Drops Demands for Times' Reporters Sources:
In an interview with The Associated Press, Carr said Wednesday that he did not know about the subpoenas before one of the lawyers on his staff, Paul Olsen, issued them.
Carr said he did not reveal that detail earlier because he generally tries to take the heat for decisions his office makes. Carr called Olsen an excellent attorney and said he agreed with everything Olsen did, but noted, "We now have a policy that all newspaper subpoenas must be approved."
Wise move. If there was a case to test the bounds of the shield law that one wasn't it.
More: not so kind words for Carr from Crosscut.
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