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Unless the Supreme Court intervenes...


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Appeals court rejects reporters' appeal
Time, New York Times seek Supreme Court review

From Terry Frieden
CNN
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Posted: 10:17 PM EDT (0217 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The full federal appeals court in Washington Tuesday rejected a request from two journalists facing possible jail sentences who had asked the court to reconsider a decision by a three-judge panel.

Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times had asked the entire appeals court to hear their contempt case, after they refused to divulge their sources to the prosecutor investigating another reporter's leak of the name of an undercover Central Intelligence Agency operative.

Cooper and Miller could face up to 18 months in jail for failing to reveal their confidential sources to a federal grand jury.

"We are disappointed with the court's decision, and we will seek a stay in order to have sufficient time to seek U.S. Supreme Court review," New York Times spokesman Toby Usnik said. <more at link>

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/19/reporters.appeal/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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DON'T publish it and they are prosecuted for not revealing their sources. Novakula gets information, publishes it and is ignored completely.

What a load of horseshit.

Novak has already talked. The case can't proceed until this issue of the other two reporters is resolved.

the irony is that novak remains untouched

Rove will spin this as Miller outed Plame and that is why she is going to jail.

or was able to invoke some special CIA get out of jail free card as it's long been rumored Novak is really a CIA agent himself.

It's understood in DC that Novak talked - from court papers filed by Fitzgerald, and I remember a discussion on the Newshour where the reporter bluntly stated that Novak talked and everyone knew it.

*edited* I said Novak filed papers when I meant Fitzgerald...

Which he can get if the other reporters will testify that he leaked to them too. At least that is what we think is happening.

They need more than one.

Whoever revealed Valerie Plame's name and destroyed her network for George Bush's political gain is the one who should be going to jail. While I have no sympathy for Novak, he didn't commit the crime, he just wrote about it.

Before Judith wears prison stripes, and the thinking is that the supremes won't touch this. Bout time this headed for resolution, Miller & Cooper have been jerking the system around for way too long. Miller may finally learn that being the mouthpiece for the neos can come back to bite you in the ass.

They did not publish the illegal leak so therefore they have no sources to protect.

Just because they didn't write about it doesn't mean they weren't the recipients of the leak from the source.

then they have no source to protect. They just have knowledge of someone who committed a crime.

They are claiming to be protecting the rights of the press in the abstract. But, if they didn't publish, then the source isn't their's to protect.

In reality, Judy is protecting her precious job and the inside sources she's cultivated and is refusing to acknowledge she's protecting the perpetrator of a felony.

There's no excuse for not turning over the name. Part of her charter is to get the information out in the open for the people of this country. Not one part of her job includes protecting lawbreakers. She's afraid that if she drops dime, she'll lose her other sources. But, if they're all crooks, then she should drop dime on all of them, do the right thing, and get new sources. Preferably the new sources won't be political hacks who commit felonies for their own gain.
The Professor

But as I understand it, just revealing the name of an undercover agent is a crime and if you have been involved, say as the unwitting recipient of stolen jewels, the grand jury can compel you to testify as to who committed the crime. And that direct knowledge may add to additional counts being added to the indictment.

Very strange...

She is a loyal servant to her neo-cons masters. And she's getting burned by them again.

IraqNam on a false premise, so I'll take her jail time as right punishment for the wrong crime.