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Wednesday, May 22, 4:45 PM

The chief judge of D.C.’s federal court issued an unusual order on Wednesday, apologizing to the public and the media for not making certain court documents widely available online.

The gesture of transparency by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth comes at a time when the Obama Administration is under scrutiny for an unprecedented number of leak investigations, including one that showed that the Justice Department had secretly probed the newsgathering activities of Fox News reporter James Rosen.

 The investigation of Rosen was first reported on Monday, after The Washington Post obtained court documents that described details of the case. A federal judge had ordered the documents unsealed in November 2011, but they were kept sealed for 18 months and not posted on the court’s online docket until last week, after The Post inquired about them.

Lamberth blamed a series of administrative errors and said a review of the “performance of the personnel involved is underway.” He also said he was creating a new category on the court’s website where all search and arrest warrants will be made public unless they fall under a separate sealing order.

At issue were three 2010 search warrants issued as part of the Rosen leak probe. The investigation

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009.

The attorney general said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, Holder says the U.S. is also aware of three other American citizens who have been killed in such counterterrorism operations over the same time period.

On Sunday I had the great honor to speak to the graduates of Georgetown Law Center’s 2013 graduates.  I was awarded an Honorary Degree: Doctor of Laws.  It is particularly fun because Georgetown Law Center is where I went to law school and because it is always EXTRA fun to get a degree from a law school you could no longer get into.

Of course, I immediately informed my family that I need to be called “DOCTOR” from now on.

And, of course, the minute I walked into the house from the ceremony with my new degree in hand, I got screamed at by the cats to feed them (and immediately, not later) and the dogs all jumped on me like I was another dog.  The animals were, in short, unimpressed, and as demanding as ever.

So….back to normal…but it was fun while it lasted…the drive home!

  See his note below:

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A source close to the leak investigation involving our colleague James Rosen.. confirms that one of the numbers listed in the Government’s discovery matches James Rosen’s parents number in Staten Island exactly..   (all 10 numbers match).

As for the Fox bureau numbers – and other numbers.. we did not go down them one by one.    But.. the source confirmed the numbers matched various extensions at the DC bureau – the State Department booth – the Fox News Pentagon booth.. and other Fox numbers as well… in addition to James’ cellphone.   (There are other cellphone numbers on here that could be other Fox News Employees.. we did not have the cross reference to check those)

Again these are the numbers listed in the filing (the red is James’ parents’ home number):

Here is the full list of the phone numbers included in the filing, which lists evidence that the prosecution was sharing with the defense:

(202) 506 (Comcast)
(202) 777 (ATT)
(212) 601 (ATT) (The Fox Business Channel is (212) 601-7000.)

(202) 549 (ATT Wireless) (Rosen’s cell phone begins with these digits… and it’s confirmed to be his cellphone)
(202) 615 (ATT)
(202) 213 (ATT Wireless)
(202) 213 (TracFone)
(202) 824 (The main number for Fox News’s Washington bureau is (202) 824-0001 and Rosen’s work line starts with these six digits.)
(202) 861 (Verizon)  (Fox State Department booth)
(202) 883 (Verizon)
(202) 293 (Verizon)
(202) 728 (Verizon)
(202) 456 (Verizon) (The White House uses this area code and exchange.)
(202) 547 (Verizon)
(202) 647 (Verizon) (The State Department uses this area code and exchange.)
(718) 720 (Verizon)  — This was James’ parents’ home in Staten Island.
(703) 979 (Verizon) (Fox News Pentagon booth)
(202) 628 (Verizon) (likely Fox News White House booth)
(202) 577 (Verizon wireless)
(202) 329 (Verizon wireless)
703-472 (Verizon wireless)
(202) 577
(703) 342
(703) 883
(304) 558 (Frontier Communications)
(212) 301 (Verizon) (Fox number)
(202) 628 (ATT)  (Possible other extension at Fox WH booth)
(917) 562 (ATT)

From New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza who broke the story about this filing:

“As of May, the government has handed over sixteen thousand two hundred and eighty-six pages of unclassified documents and three thousand two hundred and three pages of classified documents to the defense in the Kim case. Because many of the filings are under seal, it is not possible to determine what other information was collected in the leak investigation.”