26 Facts About James Risen

James Risen was born on April 27,1955 and is an American journalist for The Intercept.

James Risen previously worked for The New York Times and before that for Los Angeles Times.

James Risen has written or co-written many articles concerning US government activities and is the author or co-author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency and a book about the American public debate about abortion.

James Risen graduated from Brown University and received a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

James Risen is currently an investigative reporter for The Intercept.

James Risen was a member of The New York Times reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for coverage of the September 11th attacks and terrorism.

James Risen was a member of The New York Times reporting team that was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, for coverage of the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in East Africa.

James Risen has written four books: Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War ; The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB ; State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration ; and Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War.

In 2004 James Risen came upon information about the National Security Agency's surveillance of international communications originating or terminating in the United States, code-named "Stellar Wind".

James Risen said the New York Times spiked the story at the request of the White House.

James Risen decided to publish the information in a book along with information about the CIA's Operation Merlin.

James Risen warned the paper about the book and suggested it publish the information itself.

James Risen's book, titled State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, was published in January 2006.

James Risen is the author of the book State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.

The CIA Public Affairs Office issued a press release alleging that James Risen's book contains serious errors in every chapter.

James Risen writes in State of War that, "Several of the Iranian [CIA] agents were arrested and jailed, while the fate of some of the others is still unknown", after a CIA official in 2004 sent an Iranian agent an encrypted electronic message, mistakenly including data that could potentially identify "virtually every spy the CIA had inside Iran".

James Risen says this book is based on information from a variety of anonymous sources that he would protect.

In 2007 James Risen received a letter from the Justice Department asking him for the sources he used for the CIA-Iran chapter of his book State of War.

James Risen was then subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in January 2008.

James Risen fought the subpoena, and it expired in the summer of 2009.

In 2011, James Risen wrote a detailed response to the subpoena, describing his reasons for refusing to reveal his sources, the public impact of his work, and his experiences with the Bush administration.

In July, 2013, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that James Risen must testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling.

The Supreme Court rejected his appeal in June 2014, leaving James Risen having to testify or go to jail.

James Risen stated that he would continue to refuse to testify and was willing to go to jail.

In early 2015, James Risen attended a pre-trial hearing, where he confirmed that he would not testify.

James Risen was then excused from testifying, ending a seven-year legal fight over whether he would identify his confidential sources.