Palin team to subpoena 23 New York Times reporters in defamation suit

Sarah Palin’s legal team plans to subpoena 23 current and former staff members of The New York Times, including writers and editors, for a defamation lawsuit, according to court papers filed in a federal district court in Manhattan on July 26. The legal team will demand the newspaper turn over "every internal communication it has had about the former vice presidential candidate since 2011." Palin filed the suit against the Times in June, alleging defamation. The case concerns an opinion piece written by the paper's editorial board that directly linked the 2011 shooting of Rep Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) to a political ad publicized by Palin. The ad put Democratic districts up for reelection in a logo symbolizing crosshairs. The court filing shows Palin claiming the newspaper wrongly accused her of "inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011.