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Air Force Revises Subpoena Rules

U.S. Air Force officials have revamped their subpoena practices to extend greater protections to journalists, according to newly released regulations.

Leaving Saigon

Thirty Years After the End of the War

By Arnold R. Isaacs

Thirty years since April '75—good grief. It seems almost too trite to say, but it doesn't seem that it could possibly have been that long ago. Every April reminds me of the end of the Vietnam war, this one more than most, not just because of the round number but because of an encounter with the past that I had just a couple of weeks before the actual anniversary. The following ruminations are longer than I intended, but here they are anyway.

Air Force May Revise Subpoena Policy

JAG Memo Follows Meeting with Dart Society Members

After several recent cases in which reporters' notes have been subpoenaed for court-martial proceedings, the Air Force is considering revisions to its legal regulations that would discourage uniformed lawyers from serving subpoenas on journalists.

Reporter Defies Air Force Subpoena

By Jesse Tarbert

Unlike other journalists who have defied subpoenas recently, Miles Moffeit is not protecting a high-level government source or someone accused of a serious crime. He's protecting Leah Kaelin, an 18-year-old woman who says she was gang-raped at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas by four fellow airmen in June 2003.