ANDERSON v. CARTER

No. 14-5002.

802 F.3d 4 (2015)

Wayne M. ANDERSON, Appellant v. Ashton B. CARTER, Secretary of Defense, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey L. Light argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.

Bruce D. Brown and Gregg P. Leslie were on the brief for amicus curiae The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in support of appellant.

Wayne H. Williams , Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the briefs were Ronald C. Machen Jr. , U.S. Attorney, and R. Craig Lawrence and Jane M. Lyons , Assistant U.S. Attorneys.

Opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part filed by Circuit Judge SRINIVASAN.


Appellant Wayne M. Anderson is a freelance journalist. In July of 2010, he was working as an embed journalist at a NATO base in Afghanistan. After he reported on a controversial shooting incident at an adjoining Afghan national army base over the objections of United States military personnel assigned to the NATO...

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