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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 02:50 PM
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Think Novak and Co. will be searching for 1st Amendment rights now?
They bitch and moan about judges using 1st amendment rights to protect criminals... well, now that they've virtually eradicated the Constitution, let's see where the assholes run to now.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/15/cia.leak.reut/index.html

Judge: Reporters must testify about CIA leak

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday that two journalists must testify before a federal grand jury about their confidential sources in an investigation into a leak that exposed the identity of a covert CIA officer.

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"There is no First Amendment privilege protecting the evidence sought," Judge David Sentelle wrote in the opinion that went against the two journalists. The decision upheld a ruling by a federal judge that Miller and Cooper were in contempt of court and should be jailed for refusing to testify about their confidential sources.

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shoelace414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:00 PM
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1. Where does it say in the constitution
that the press can keep their sources secret?

(this is what "strict constructionist" means.)
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Voltaire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 03:02 PM
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2. SENTELLE wrote that?
Wow. Must be my day to stop sniffing glue.
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