[stinkerpot65]

So then:

1. No crime was committed.

2. In your view, the only justification for the whole investigation is to prove the reporters to be liars. I wouldn't be surprised that they are, and it would be poetic justice since they whipped up the story to begin with.

However, it is not the job of the Justice Department to hammer reporters for lying. Sooner or later, that hammer will be in the hands of a corrupt Democrat.

Do you want a Hillary Clinton presidency with the same power to intimidate Fox or Rush Limbaugh? She would surely do it, just as she did with the IRS.

Besides, the lies of the MSM over the decades are already catching up to them. They are the most despised insitution in the country.

Government control of the press (or any other speech) is dangerous. The only good solution is a robust conservative press to counter their lies.

3. Gig 'em. Class of 82 (for Southack) How dare you call me a troll. You must be a B.Q.!

[cyncooper]

I really think the leaker in the government is the focal point here, not the reporters.

[Southack]

"1. No crime was committed."

Incorrect. Libel and slander *are* crimes. So is lying to federal judges about "sources" that don't really exist.

The reporters *fabricated* the whole affair from soup to nuts. They aren't "protecting" any confidential sources...because none exist.

The reporters have committed NUMEROUS crimes (e.g. slander, libel, conspiracy, contempt, perjury, etc.) and are attempting to hide behind an ill-conceived judicial principle that would create political classes of Americans (i.e. those protected as "journalists" versus everyone else).

The reporters all need to go to jail and their whole fabricated affair needs to be exposed to the public. Then, whatever culpability that the NY Times and WaPost have to these crimes should be investigated.

[Southack]

"Do you want a Hillary Clinton presidency with the same power to intimidate Fox or Rush Limbaugh? She would surely do it, just as she did with the IRS."

False logic. She could do all of the above, and more, regardless of how we behave at this point in time. She demonstrated that by using the IRS to attack her opponents long before we behaved in any manner whatsoever in this Plame affair. QED.

[Southack]

"Government control of the press (or any other speech) is dangerous. The only good solution is a robust conservative press to counter their lies. 3. Gig 'em. Class of 82 (for Southack) How dare you call me a troll. You must be a B.Q.!"

Telling our courts to NOT prosecute libel, slander, conspiracy, contempt, and outright lies in the news media would be a disastrous policy to follow.

Don't go there.

Jail the tainted reporters and expose their whole sordid affair.