[radar101]

Chickens come home to roost for resister's rooters.

[absolootezer0]

so the army wants her to testify that her article was the truth, and she has a problem with that?

[L98Fiero]

"The ethical problem in this case, she said, is that she would be aiding the prosecution of one of the dissidents and war critics who regularly trust her to tell their stories to the public."

A dried up well isn't an ethical problem, honey. Glad you don't make your living interviewing child rapists. Idiot "journalists".

[CatoRenasci]

The most encouraging thing about this is that it looks like Lieutenant Wannabe is gonna get himself very thoroughly convicted by a court-martial, perhaps he can spend the next 20 years or so breaking rocks in Leavenworth. It's a pity we don't have punishment battalions for guys like him: let him be the point man in minefields and potential ambuscades.

[jazusamo]

Watada's going to spend some time at Leavenworth and it's appropriate that these two reporters who are sympathetic to him are going to help put him there.

[pnh102]

Throw these reporters in jail if they do not comply with the law. A press pass should NEVER be treated as some sort of "Get Out of Jail Free" card that entitles the holder to be complicit in criminal activity.

The same should apply to reporters who do not identify anonymous leakers in other government documents.

[Obie Wan]

Watada, 28, faces a court-martial in February at Fort Lewis, Wash., where he is based. He is charged with missing a troop movement -- because he refused to deploy

The main issue, Seitz said, is "whether he had First Amendment rights to say what he did.'

What's First Amendment rights have to do with disobeying and order to deploy with his unit? Was he in the military or wasn't he ???

[grobdriver]

"The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth..."
We'll leave off the last part, lest you choke, Ms. Olson.

[armymarinemom]

Watada used his Military ID photo for the papers in Honolulu. The guy is a rock star over there and shoots his mouth in a big way.

[PeteB570]

Well if the press quoted him it must be true. Would the press lie to us and make up stuff just to help with a story?

Come on.

Shoot him.

[GOP_1900AD]

Shoot him.

[james500]

"The ethical problem in this case, she said, is that she would be aiding the prosecution of one of the dissidents and war critics who regularly trust her to tell their stories to the public."

DISSIDENTS??? Human Rights Watch is going to release a report on the persecution of political dissidents in America, I'm sure. Boy, this is just like the Soviet Union!