Posted on 06/30/2005 6:15:10 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
NEW YORK - Time Inc. said Thursday it would comply with a court order to deliver the notes of a reporter threatened with jail in the investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan is threatening to jail Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times for contempt for refusing to disclose their sources.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the reporters' appeal and the grand jury investigating the leak expires in October. The reporters, if in jail, would be freed at that time.
In a statement, Time said it believes "the Supreme Court has limited press freedom in ways that will have a chilling effect on our work and that may damage the free flow of information that is so necessary in a democratic society." '
But it also said that despite its concerns, it will turn over the records to the special counsel investigating the leak.
What pussies. The reporters are willing to go to jail to protect their sources. But TIME is wussing out over the threat of a monetary fine? Sheesh.
See #34.
or leaky leahy.
BINGO!
The Micheline Guide (yes, from Frants) gives Club Gitmo 5 stars.
All upset that the trumped up story to get President Bush is falling apart, I see.
To me, Novak's use of the phrase "surprising things" suggests not that there will be criminal indictments, but that there will be revelations concerning the identities of the behind-the-scenes players and their motives and interactions.
That's how I read it, too. I stated up thread (or maybe on a different thread?) that I do not expect any charges. But like you, I am pleased to know more details will be put forth publicly.
They ended up knowing all there is to know about most functions of government. Studying their writings and times proves that there truly is very little new under the sun with regards to human behavior.
And, of course, this whole thing was created because the Dems thought they had Karl Rove or someone from the administration trying to hurt a critic. It's obvious now that isn't true.
It sounds like October 2005. No federal elections this year.
the notes I've seen suggested elsewhere, are internal e-mails. Not surprising, the first Cooper article was written with 5 reporters as authros and contributors.
"It's still not clear to me why Novak isn't part of this - did he divulge his source? Why Cooper and Miller, but not Novak, who was the one who started the whole thing?"
Cooper wrote officials told him about Plame too. More mysterious is Miller.
Agreed! Over at Kevin Drum's blog "Washington Monthly" they were pleading for people to write letters to the Court begging for no jail time (for Cooper only, of course): http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_06/006598.php
Funny how these same liberals were ATTACKING Linda Tripp but DEFEND Mark Felt - must be nice to have rock-solid principles depending on which way the wind blows through the Oval Office . . .
Some possibilities are Novak plead the 5th or received some deal for his testimony already. Sounds like we'll find out by October.
Well, they were screaming for an investigtion, and they got one. As Porky Pig said, "You buttered your bread, now you can sleep in it."
Good logic - the only reason the NYT is holding on to principle is because they are not named (and subject to huge fines) like TIME magazine - NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. is "deeply disappointed" in TIME magazine:
"We faced similar pressures in 1978 when both our reporter Myron Farber and the Times Company were held in contempt of court for refusing to provide the names of confidential sources. Mr. Farber served 40 days in jail and we were forced to pay significant fines."
Adds Sulzberger, "Our focus is now on our own reporter, Judith Miller, and in supporting her during this difficult time." In other words, "Six months of box-chomping seems a small price to pay so that we can adhere to our principles."
He already testified or spoke to the FBI. So have his "sources" who told him about Wilson's wife on background, not to harm Wilson. Novak said the reason he named her was his concern about potential Bush opponents hired by the Bush Administration. He admitted that his sources warned him not to use the reference, but he did anyway for his own perverse personal goal.
Nation writer David Corn started the hysteria with an article on July 16, 2003 asserting that Novak's article was a Bush plant to hit at Wilson. The MoveOn.Org-type conspiracy theory thinking about Rove and the like built from there, fed by Wilson because he's inclined to paranoid thinking like that and his hurt male ego that Mr. Big-Shot had to get a gig on his younger wife's referral. Wilson, admittedly, has right to feel outraged, but as a Kerry campaign adviser at the time he was participatiing in the Bush-lied campaign suggesting Bush lied about WMDs, leaving out the fact Wilson thought Iraq had them, just not nuclear ones.
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