Thanks for the article. The three judge panel in the Judith Miller case also tried to make the distinction between "good leaks" and "bad leaks". Too bad for Ms Miller that her fellow journalists didn't think that hers was the "right" case to fight for protecting a sources.
This whole affair, in my mind, provides definitive and irrefutable evidence of the mainstream media's ideological, even nakedly partisan, political bias. How else do you explain the initial dramatic and nearly universal reaction of the press, calling frantically for the exposure, firing and prosecution of the Plame leaker? I remember those early press conferences. It was like panicked medieval peasants calling for the burning of witches.
So here you had, and still have, the press arguing, even passionately clamoring, in direct and emphatic opposition to their own professional interests (which would be to encourage or at least protect leakers)!
There's simply no other explanation for such a remarkable occurrence other than partisanship, and extreme, even fanatical, partisanship at that.