Apathy? Now if you're talking about manipulation of the truth that's another matter all together.
Resistance is futile..........we are the Blog
Posted on 03/23/2005 2:19:24 PM PST by cyncooper
Time Magazine's White House correspondent Matt Cooper said he is still trying to find the right words to explain to his six-year-old son that "daddy might not be coming home for a while."
In a talk at the Law School Tuesday evening, Cooper explained the details of a case that could land him behind bars. Last month a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that Cooper could face time in prison for refusing to reveal the name of a confidential government source who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame in 2003. Judith Miller of The New York Times is also being prosecuted for refusing to comply with subpoenas, and the controversy surrounding the case has sparked a debate about the nature of journalistic privilege in regard to the confidentiality of sources, Cooper said.
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Cooper said he may face sentencing this week unless he obtains a stay. When asked about the prospect of serving prison time, Cooper said he would rather go to prison than break the confidentiality of his source.
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Cooper said he found the case proceedings and how it has been enshrouded in secrecy to be almost comic.
"Lots of the evidence of the case … is being kept sealed by the courts," Cooper said. "It's one of the ironies of this case that Judith Miller and I are being denied this information even though we've shown that we're pretty good for keeping secrets."
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Apathy? Now if you're talking about manipulation of the truth that's another matter all together.
Resistance is futile..........we are the Blog
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It must be a Democrat. :-)
Exactly. This way he's in a win-win situation. He goes to jail and protects his source, becomes a 'victim' of 'Republican dirty tricks' and a martyr for the MSM. Plus, he will surely write a scathing book while he's imprisoned and then write his own ticket in the almighty world of journalism after his release. (And I don't imagine he'd be bothered one bit by having to 'get married' to a fellow prisoner either.)
He should be forced to go without food and water.
isn't Cooper married to Mandy Gruenwald?
OMG.....I'm EATING..........stop!!!
Please.
Congratulations.
I freepmailed someone wondering how long before a Terri Schiavo mention was made and you're it.
FWIW, Cooper can swallow and is cognizant. This is relevant when drawing equivalencies. I would have liked to have seen guardianship turned over to the parents but so far it doesn't look like that will happen, but it is not the same as locking a healthy person away and withholding food and water.
I posted a picture of the happy couple at #6. He is indeed.
:)
Which one is the guy?
Yep. No such thing as a journalistic privilege.
Created out of thin air by lefties.
Seems like a nice guy, but he needs to got to jail.
She more than likely hadn't been under cover for many more years than the law would cover.
Novak did a service, IMO, in telling us why Wilson was sent off to Niger (his wife suggested him).
It is my theory that this investigation is into illegal leaks from the CIA of more than her name, which most likely was not illegal to give.
Time will tell.
Silly liberal........I can assure him that Patrick Fitgerald is quite serious about the law.
They should be treated as harshly as Benedict Arnold and hung as spies.
You two might be interested in the ruling I linked in the first post. Each judge of the three judge panel wrote individual opinions affirming their unanimous decision and the first is Judge Sentelle (remember him? vilifed during the Ken Starr days).
Judge Sentelle ponders whether the privilege shouldn't cover bloggers in their pajamas, and if not, why not.
He'd be hard-pressed to find a man as (ahem) masculine as Mandy.
You don't see Novak going to jail, do you?
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