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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Fredric L. Rice" |
| Date: |
01 Jul 2005 10:21:48 PM |
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Karl Rove to murder journalists by end of this week |
Judge gives US reporters one week to reveal sources or face jail
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050629/ts_alt_afp/usjusticecourtmedia_050629210111
A judge gave two US journalists one week to reveal their sources to a
grand jury probing the leak of a Central Intelligence Agency operative's
identity or go to jail.
District Court Judge Thomas Hogan scheduled a hearing for July 6 at
which time Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New
York Times will have to testify or face up to 18 months in prison.
The judge gave lawyers for the two reporters until Friday to explain
their failure to testify and to present mitigating information, and
allowed prosecutors until Tuesday to respond.
The pair had argued that press freedom guarantees in the US Constitution
shielded them from having to testify. But an appeals court rejected the
argument, and the US Supreme Court Monday refused to hear the case.
The case involving Miller and Cooper stems from a grand jury
investigation into who leaked the name of covert
CIA agent Valerie Plame to conservative columnist Bob Novak. Novak
revealed her identity in a July 2003 column, citing two unnamed senior
administration officials as his sources.
Under public and media pressure sparked by reports that administration
officials had disclosed Plame's name to several journalists,
President George W. Bush in December 2003 ordered an investigation into
the leak and named Patrick Fitzgerald, US attorney in Chicago, as
special counsel.
Fitzgerald promptly convened a grand jury and began calling journalists
to testify, including those, such as Miller, who had not written about
the affair.
The case is one of several in the United States that have recently
revived the issue of whether reporters should be forced to testify in
court about information they learn while doing their jobs.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects journalists from
government interference in their work. But the Supreme Court ruled in
1972 that protection does not apply to reporters whose testimony is
essential in criminal cases, even if a source was promised anonymity.
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