Subpoena for CBS News interviews 'sends a chilling message' to victims in sexual abuse case against Army doctor, advocates say

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Subpoena for CBS News interviews 'sends a chilling message' to victims in sexual abuse case against Army doctor, advocates say
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Later this week an Army judge will hear arguments to reject a subpoena for unaired footage from interviews with two retired soldiers accusing the doctor, Maj. Michael Stockin, of misconduct.

Advocates for victims of sexual assault are speaking out against an effort by lawyers for an Army doctor, accused of abusing more than 40 patients, to obtain unbroadcast footage of CBS News interviews with two of his accusers ahead of court martial proceedings against him.

CBS News recorded the interviews in shadow and did not identify them by name in its broadcast. In asking the military judge to throw out the subpoena, attorneys for CBS News argued the interviews with confidential sources should be protected under widely accepted reporter's privilege and that the request was 'nothing more than a fishing expedition.

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