Time Will Comply With Order to Hand Over Documents (Update2)

[dogday]

June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Time Inc. said it will comply with a court order demanding the magazine publisher hand over documents that may identify the person who leaked the name of a CIA operative.

The decision ``removes any justification,'' for jailing Time reporter Matthew Cooper, who faces 18 months in prison for refusing to identify his source, Time said today in a statement.

By complying, Time would become responsible for revealing the source, not Cooper. Time also avoids fines and may help end a yearlong case over who leaked the name of Valerie Plame, a Central Intelligence Agency weapons expert. Cooper, 42, and New York Times reporter Judith Miller were found in contempt of court Aug. 9 after refusing to reveal who leaked Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak. The Supreme Court this week rejected their appeal.

``The Supreme Court has limited press freedom in ways that will have a chilling effect on our work and that may damage the free flow of information that is so necessary in a democratic society,'' Time Editor in Chief Norman Pearlstine said in the statement. ``It may also encourage excesses by overzealous prosecutors.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aTurxxM5UCIk&refer=top_world_news

[Goldmund]

1. So does this mean the leaker will be made public?

:shrug:

[dogday]

2. By complying, Time would become responsible for revealing the source

I heard there were emails and notes and such with the person's name on it...

[H2O Man]

3. TIME will provide

the Grand Jury with the documents.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Did I read somewhere that Ted Olson was their

attorney? If so, I smell something.

[Just Me]

5. WOW!!! Just WOW!!!

This feels really, really good!!! :woohoo:

Will the NYT follow suit to protect their reporter?

[dogday]

6. The Leak Was A Federal Crime

Judith Miller argues the public's right to know, but in this case, the public had no right to know...