Ping to the continuing Plame Name Blame Game saga!
We got us a reporter threatened with JAIL.
Since it's that Mandy Gruenwald's husband I can't say I'm shedding too many tears, though he's got a fine last name.
LOL
Cooper is Mandy Grumwald's hubby,eh...
wouldn't it be funny if WILSON ends up being the one indicted?
Damn those Nazi Republicans, putting reporters in jail. Wait a minute the prosecutors want to frog march the evil svengali Karl Rove.
Er, help me here. What's my anti-Bush angle?
Signed,
CBS/ABC/NBC/NYTIMES
The plot just thickens and thickens! Smells like scadenfreude soup!
I found a very interesting article about journalistic privilege at http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/4/bowden-shields.asp.
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I think, in retrospect, I should have promptly answered all the prosecutors’ questions and showed them my notes. The newspaper would have been better off. The Inquirer appealed my case (Bowden v. Pa.) all the way to the state Supreme Court and lost. It now stands as a permanent setback for the Pennsylvania shield law, and a further erosion of the sweeping interpretation in Taylor. And for what? I had nothing to protect. Instead of contesting every subpoena that arrives, newspapers should do a better job of picking their fights. In the Plame case, it isn’t clear yet why the special grand jury wants to question Russert and Cooper. But unless they have made promises of confidentiality to someone, it is their duty to cooperate. In my case, simply agreeing to answer prosecutors’ questions would not have compromised any journalistic principles, it would have cost the newspaper next to nothing (I doubt I would have been summoned to the trial), and there would now be no Bowden v. Pa. to sway future rulings on the subject.
I would have lost my chance to play hero for a day, but I would have done my duty as a citizen, and that would have been that.
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A very refreshing article, from the Columbia Journalism Review.
Given this guys alliances, I'd almost have to say he's not taking this risk to protect anyone in the Bush administration. My guess is, he's protecting either another Democrat, or the Wilsons themselves.
I think there ought to be a "family tree" to show how all the reporters/pundits/anchors are all related to one another.
I'm praying that your theories are right, cyn.
And I am SO glad that President Bush didn't have a problem with testifying. Makes the rest of them look silly.