Posted on 03/10/2005 6:51:42 PM PST by Zivasmate
JON CARROLL Jon Carroll
Thursday, March 10, 2005
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Jon Carroll
So today I am enjoying the words of Judge David Sentelle of the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals. He was asked to take on the case of Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, who are refusing to reveal confidential sources that might lead prosecutors to the person who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
It will be remembered that Plame is the wife of former Ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson, who had irritated the Bush White House by strongly criticizing both the Iraq war and the administration's handling of it. There is a strong if unproven belief that some Bush loyalist leaked Plame's name in retaliation, since it effectively ended her career -- and, just by the way, put her life in danger, but leakers can't be choosers
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