[summer]

More from article:

Allowing the reporters home confinement would make it easier for them to continue to defy a court order to testify, he said. Special treatment for journalists may "negate the coercive effect contemplated by federal law," Fitzgerald wrote in filings with the court.s

"Journalists are not entitled to promise complete confidentiality - no one in America is," Fitzgerald wrote.

[summer]

See post #3 - you were right re No confidentiality.

[mbraynard]

While I agree with the sentiment, he is incorrect as that husband-wives have confidentiality, attorney-clients have confidentiality, and I am unsure about priest-confessors but they may as well.

[cyncooper]

More from article:

Allowing the reporters home confinement would make it easier for them to continue to defy a court order to testify, he said. Special treatment for journalists may "negate the coercive effect contemplated by federal law," Fitzgerald wrote in filings with the courts

That would have been a good spot for Yost to note that the unanimous Appeals Court ruling noted that any privilege that might exist does not apply in this case.

Of course, that would undermine his theme that an out of control prosecutor is trampling the rights of these reporters.

Thanks for the update. Pinging others.