Prosecutor Says go to Jail - Do Not Pass Go

[HagiaSophia]

Two journalists should be jailed for refusing to reveal their confidential sources to a grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative’s name to the news media, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald urged Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan to reject requests from New York Times correspondent Judith Miller and Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper for home detention instead of jail.

“Journalists are not entitled to promise confidentiality – no one in America is,” Fitzgerald, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, wrote in one of the court filings…"

reuters.myway.com/article/20050705/2005-07-05T200854Z_01_N05132438_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-MEDIA-LEAK-DC.html

 

[gilliam]

see:

‘Wash Post’ Wonders if Leaker of Plame’s Identity Was a Reporter

 

[David_Paul]

Kinda blew up in their face, didn’t it?

Karl Rove is good but is he this good?

 

[Timidity]

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald:

Journalists are not entitled to promise confidentiality – no one in America is

I wonder if he thinks that applies to the confessional as well…