[Fzob]

Kincaid also said the spectacle of Miller being jailed and then released shows that a federal shield law to protect media sources is not necessary. "All she had to do to stay out of jail was to tell the truth," said Kincaid. "Is that too much to ask?"

While Mrs' Miller's stunt was just that, protecting sources in a free press is an absolute necessity, and the shield law should remain.

[billhilly]

Consider the source. AIM is not exactly a paragon of trustworthiness.

[MDspinboyredux]

Of course it was a ploy. Remember all the 'whispering' around DC that the source was the great liberal boogyman Karl Rove? The media speculation was SO out-of-hand that members of congress were calling for President Bush to have him resign.

All of this, of course, without merit as it turns out.

My paranoia tells me that she hoped that Congressional pressure would get to a point where Rove, in the interest of ending the bad press on the President, would step aside.

[Piquaboy]

The whole thing was a crock of crap dreamed up to make the administration look bad.

[JCEccles]

The judge in the case called Miller's bluff from the start. He knew the identity of the so-called informant (Libby) she said she was protecting and knew that he had already given her permission to testify. He told her straight out that she wasn't "protecting" anybody by refusing to testify.

Miller went to jail, with her liberal boss's fully complicit encouragement, to artificially pump up the story for dramatic effect in an outrageously cynical attempt to embarrass the Bush administration. Note that Miller waited until after the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita stories had died down, and after John Roberts had been confirmed as Chief Justice of SCOTUS but before Bush had named O'Connor's replacement.

Miller and her bosses planned her jailbreak for a relatively quiet time when the noise of its notoriety would not be drowned out by competing stories.

I really hope this backfires on the Democrats.

[EagleUSA]

We must fact the reality that this whole situation is very CLINTONESQUE...

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

MSM takes one line amongst the others contained in the 1st, then claims it guarantees them unlimited freedoms and protections. Yet, same MSM scoffs at entirety of the 2nd as being outdated, irrelevant and pure BS.

[ChildOfThe60s]

All she had to do to stay out of jail was to tell the truth...

See the irony in that statement?

What if journalists really had to tell the truth to stay out of jail?