[Howlin]

It's sounding like the journalist and reporters are already starting to go on the defensive

No kidding.

From the rest of the article:

Prosecutors are using testimony from journalists to show Libby lied about what he told reporters he knew about Plame.

and

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will begin calling reporters to the stand Tuesday...

Evidently they are lining up outside the courthouse to destroy Libby and the Bush administration and save their sorry asses.

Fleischer said he told Dickerson, then White House correspondent for Time, that he had told him that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA.

Told him that he had told him?

Fleischer said he told Dickerson and David Gregory of NBC that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, Dickerson wrote.

Then why isn't Ari on trial for outting a CIA "agent?"

[tobyhill]

Ari cut a deal to say whatever Fitzy wanted him to say because Ari "thought" giving her name was illegal.

[CutePuppy]

After Armitage was "outed", media went silent on this, except when having to report they kept falling back on usual spin of "accused of", "on trial for", "suspected of" nonsense.

The media doesn't want to be a part of this trial, they've done their damage and want this over, pronto.

[petitfour]

Because Ari made a deal with Fitzgerald.