But then again, this is Time:
Posted on 06/04/2004 8:26:53 PM PDT by ambrose
Media move to quash subpoenas on CIA leak
BY TOM BRUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU
June 5, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Time magazine and NBC on Friday filed motions seeking to quash grand jury subpoenas issued last month to compel testimony from their reporters about whether Bush administration officials leaked the name of a covert CIA operative.
The motions, claiming reporters' privilege under the First Amendment, were filed under seal in U.S. District Court in Washington, Time and NBC said, and represent what many attorneys say could be an uphill battle because of unfavorable case law.
Time and NBC are fighting subpoenas issued May 21 by a Washington grand jury led by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago named six months ago to probe the leak last year of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak and other journalists.
Fitzgerald, seeking the identity of the leaker or leakers, wants to question Matthew Cooper of Time and Tim Russert of NBC's "Meet the Press," who reported on the leak.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
and what about Novak?
The First Amendment says no such thing---but then again, some people think the Constitution gives them a right to murder when they feel like it.
yes, but we also must fear what they might say. Bush didn't retain Sharp for nothing - who knows what schemes they could setup here against Bush.
Her 'secret' identity as a C.I.A. employee was not a secret in Washington dinner circles. A 'leak' didn't have to come from someone in the White House, mere;y a liberal dnc servant doing his party's bidding in order to start a rumor and perhaps gin up a watergatesque empanelment for dnc political purposes. Wilson has been caught in more than one lie, so his credibility is about as good as Ayatollah Teddy's.
I'm also wondering - could Tenet be called to testify here?
Wouldn't Wilson's wife be an 'administration official,' and wouldn't the Wash Post's Pincus' wife also be an 'administration official' given that except for Congress and the Judiciary and their staffs- everybody with a government job, no matter who appointed them or when, is an 'administration official?'
exactly right. but the fact remains - they have a grand jury now.
Media gets a reality check.
Interesting to watch coverage from now until Nov.
Let's see if any want to get tossed in the slammer like that leftie bimbo wanna-bee writer who claimed that made her a journalist.
But then again, this is Time:
Not only "who?", but "why?"
What was the purpose of Wilson's mission to begin with? And was the purpose accomplished?
Presuming, of course, that the original purpose was not to undermine the President...
Exactly.
Good points all.
I want to see Russert's reaction.
And Novak's.
Well, the one named leaker was Plame herself; she leaked all over Wilson's pillow. And then Wilson leaked that information to Maureen Dowd.
You're right on all accounts.
Who cares about the b*tch? Her husband made sure she was all over the papers? This is a non-starter, forget it, not worth the bandwidth to anybody except her creepy husband (kerry/lurch supporter). HAHAHAHAHA
That would include ex-Clinton Administration officials, right?
Except for their latest "UN war crimes tribunal" angle. Their desperation increases daily.
Agreed. Novak is as much a "friend" of Bush's as is McCain and the rest of the RINO's.
I don't know. It seems to me the UN war crimes tribunal might be a threat from Kofi to lay off the oil for food investigations that seem to point right at Kofi's son...
Unless it was Hitlery, in which case the leaker's "outer" could expect the live expectancy of James McDougal in a BC-approved Federal prison.
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