Posted on 07/11/2005 11:18:25 PM PDT by Howlin
So why with a special prosecutor now threatening to toss Time magazine's Matthew Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller in jail if they don't give up their sources in the Plame case aren't their lawyers invoking the "no laws were broken" defense?
Explains the National Review's Rich Lowry: The Miller-Cooper defense hasn't made this argument because it would be too embarrassing to admit that the Bush administration's "crime of the century" wasn't really a crime at all, especially after a year and a half of media chest-beating to the contrary.
"It was just a Washington flap played for all it was worth by the same news organizations now about to watch their employees go to prison over it," says Lowry.
"That's the truth that the media will go to any length to avoid."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348716/posts
Thanks for the ping---
Boy, do I want to get into this and post, but, I have my 5 month old granddaughter for the night, and she is jealous of the computer....lol
But, I will be reading...
I know this is tacky, but the first thing that came into my mind when I look at that is
*HONK*
This one ought to put you right over the edge:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1441468/posts
Matt used to do stand up at DC's Improv, if that gives you some idea. He's a good guy (and a funny guy), and that was an informal office email to his editor. Those are Matt's words with matt being funny to reinforce how "deep" the source was.
Rove has the RATS looking like fools once again and we have a member of the NYT journalist staff in the slammer for what looks like a long time !
Whoa!....hey, how'd I get dropped from your ping list?
This one's hot!
Lowery is just brilliant, isn't he? I love to read his articles.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........................
What, you don't believe it?
Yeah, I think that I have it about right. I have been following this pretty closely. Chris Lehane is the center piece that everyone is overlooking.
Yes, I bet he is and YOU are the ONLY one who managed to find that missing piece to the puzzle. BRAVA!
get a good laugh, John Dean coming up on CNN to hawk his "Worse than Watergate" drivel...
Look! You're still on MY list, bud!
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