[Liz]

"Journalists are not entitled to promise complete confidentiality — no one in America is." --- U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, urging a federal judge to send Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times to prison for refusing to testify to a grand jury.

[onyx]

For starters, when the source is anonymous, we do not truly know the source exists.

[Waco]

Be funny if it turns out the both of them cribbed Novak's collumn and ginned it up some, wouldn't it?

[KosmicKitty]

I thought that going to jail to protect your sources was a badge of honor for journalists. Just another war story to talk about over a few drinks w/ your buddies

[freeangel]

No American above the law--except for certain judges when they don't like the law.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

If we have learned anything in the last ten years, we have learned that a growing segment of the population is indeed above the law.

Guess this reporter just doesn't happen to have made the grade.

[wildbill]

It was settled in Paula Jones vs. Willim Clinton that not even a sitting President could hold himself above the law and refuse to testify.

Why should some reporters think they have a special dispensation that is above any other citizen?

[Principled]

WHo will start a pool? Bets to include admin source, dem party source, etc?