Media groups concerned by Justice Dept. investigation of CIA leak; prepared to oppose subpoenas

Associated Press ^ | 09-30-03

[Brian S]

Media organizations prepared Tuesday to oppose any efforts by the Justice Department to subpoena journalists and their notes to learn who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak.

Subpoenas could be challenged on the basis of First Amendment guarantees of freedom of the press, said Bill Felber, editor of The Manhattan (Kan.) Mercury and freedom of information chairman for the Associated Press Managing Editors. But they could also be challenged, he said, if they were too broad or if the information could be obtained in other ways.

[Brian S]

This is going to be "sweeeeeet"!

[William McKinley]

I agree.

It's about time too. Anonymous sources have undermined news organizations to where they are mere puppets of politicos.

(Or, wholly owned subsidaries, when it comes to the Democrats)

[Chad Fairbanks]

Translation: We want to be free to tear down the Bush Administration, without being questioned about silly little things like proof and stuff. SPeculation rumour, and anonymous sources are much more efficient...

[cwb]

BINGO! With rules like this, the media can make up any claim they want and never have to reveal their sources. Deepthroat.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Heck, they don't even have to release the info given by the sources. They can twist it and spin it their way, and then hide behind the Constitution-Cloak...

[piasa]

Who's responsible for the idiotic keyword?

[Grampa Dave]

Let me get this straight.

At first they want to lynch Rove and GW for leaking.

Now that GW has called for an investigation re who really did the leaking, they are against it.

If the left wing American Media just disappeared tonight at Midnight, the entire world would be better off.

[piasa]

Priceless.

[cwb]

It's a joke. Let's hope the sheeple catch on to this because this "protection" literally makes these people the most powerful people in America.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Bingo! You nailed it on all counts.

Of course, my theory is that the media is fighting this to protect the democrats from embarrassment because they KNOW that it was a Clinton-Holdover who allegedly spilled this info...

[Grampa Dave]

Isn't this a great turn around?

At first they were ready to lynch Rove and GW without a trial for supposedly leaking about Wilson's Plame.

Now, that a real investigation is starting, they are against it.

The lies and duplicity of the left wing mediot rats is beyond any description.

[Brian S]

Who's responsible for the idiotic keyword?

Not I! I don't do "keywords"...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Heh. Well, maybe every single one of us can create little 'media' outlets, legally, providing us all with the same protection? ;0)

[Peach]

I just read that a few minutes ago and was so disgusted I started playing computer backgammon and only checked in here for a second.

Hypocrites, all of them.

[Grampa Dave]

Isn't this fun.

The left wing mediots start out to lynch Rove and GW, and now we get to cheer as they are investigated.

[Grampa Dave]

A Clinton Holdover who was operating under instructions from the Clintoons and probably financed by George Soros.

Or he was being blackmailed by the Clintoons for some personal acts he did too often.

[RJS1950]

No, it would be as W.T. Sherman noted: If I had them all (reporters) shot this afternoon there would be news from hell by breakfast.

[Dog Gone]

The Democrats only want the issue. They certainly don't want it resolved.

[Grampa Dave]

This is absolutely great!

No, it would be as W.T. Sherman noted: If I had them all (reporters) shot this afternoon there would be news from hell by breakfast.

[Chad Fairbanks]

That sounds about right - a political appointee or holdover who's FBI FIle is in Hillary's desk, perhaps?