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To: cyncooper

FYI.


2 posted on 07/05/2005 11:16:55 AM PDT by summer
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Allowing the reporters home confinement would make it easier for them to continue to defy a court order to testify, he said. Special treatment for journalists may "negate the coercive effect contemplated by federal law," Fitzgerald wrote in filings with the court.s

"Journalists are not entitled to promise complete confidentiality - no one in America is," Fitzgerald wrote.

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