It's hard to understand how the Cleveland Plain Dealer can justify compromising an FBI investigation into corruption in Cleveland by revealing three sealed FBI documents and calling their stories "investigations." There were dozens of confidential FBI documents in the San Diego corruption investigation into two city councilmen who were subsequently convicted, but none of those documents was leaked to the media. If they were, they were not used by the media to try to derail an investigation or subsequent conviction.
As much as the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Editor & Publisher want to pretend it is protecting their sources, it's about collusion.
The source of one of the documents is the criminal defense attorney for Joe Jones, a former city councilman involved in a bribery case, according to the New York Times. Jerome Emoff has some very interesting clients he has represented. You could make the case that every criminal has a right to an attorney, and attorneys don't always sympathize with their clients. But when one of the clients is a former city councilman under indictment and the FBI report is testimony relevant to corruption in Cleveland, you can make your own judgement.
Having access to LexisNexus, no doubt the Cleveland Plain Dealer knew EXACTLY who Emoff was. The question ought to be why the Cleveland Plain Dealer was on such good terms with such scum.
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