Posted on 12/31/2005 6:43:53 AM PST by HonduGOP
Dalglish: Justice Dept. Probe of 'NYT' Shows Need for Shield Law
By Joe Strupp
Published: December 30, 2005 1:11 PM ET
NEW YORK Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, expressed outrage at the Justice Department investigation into who leaked classified information to The New York Times about the Bush administration's controversial domestic spying program, saying it is even more serious than the Valerie Plame probe.
"This is much more of a classic whistleblower than the Plame case was and that is why the stakes are much higher," Dalglish said. "The public needed to know about it and that is a classic reason why reporters need to protect their sources and it is even more reason why there is a need to have a federal shield law."
Dalglish believes that the seriousness of this case could drive regular citizens to speak out against such investigations and push more for a federal source protection bill to be passed by Congress. "Hopefully the public will begin to understand," she said.
Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis declined to comment on the Justice Department investigation and said no Times officials would be commenting. Executive Editor Bill Keller did not return calls seeking comment because, his office said, he was out on vacation
A whistleblower must also limit the disclosure to a member of Congress or staff of the executive or legislative branch holding the appropriate security clearance and authorized to receive the information disclosed.
With freedom comes responsibility.
Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, expressed outrage at the Justice Department investigation into who leaked classified information to The New York Times
She should be arrested and thrown in Jail.
Just another stinkin Commie Pinko.
"The public needed to know about it and that is a classic reason why reporters need to protect their sources and it is even more reason why there is a need to have a federal shield law."
No... the public did not need to know, and for SURE, Al Quaida did not need to know.
The reporter should be asked for their source, and if refused, put in jail until the traitor that exposed this national security information is found.
re: seriousness of this case could drive regular citizens to speak out
Certainly makes me want to speak out! Find whoever did this and, with proper consideration of their civil rights of course, throw the book at them.
"This is much more of a -classic whistleblower-( insert Treason) than the Plame case was and that is why the stakes are much higher," Dalglish said.
The fecal material will fly on this one!
They're they go again with their "Whistleblower" talking points...
I agree, Mware. It doesnt apply here. Leaking classified info is reprehensible enough without doing to injure someone else politically..
No, the public didn't need to know. Yeah, there needs to be an investigation and jail time - of the congressman who leaked it and the Slimes that ran with it.
Yes, and I've heard other "journalists" whine about "the chilling effect" on "journalism" that this investigation will have. This isn't about journalism. It's about printing national secrets that could (and has, if you count past stories) cause many deaths.
Lucy Dalglish is remarkably ignorant. However, ignorance, bias, laziness, and carelessness seem to be rampant amongst the members of the press these days.
The push for a shield law, however you feel about the merits, is doomed to failre, becuase if one does favor it..you then have to immediately deal with the next question.."What's the definition of a reporter?" Would Matt Drudge qualify? How about someone who just blogs?..IOW..the MSM is over..kaput..this is their death knell.
This is actually a classic reason why the public does not respect the press. A "federal shield law" has no chance.
Good thing I'm not running things, because I'd take that reporter to Gitmo and waterboard him until he gives up the leaker, then toss his ass in jail for 30 years just for good measure.
Dalglish believes that the seriousness of this case could drive regular citizens to speak out against such investigations and push more for a federal source protection bill to be passed by Congress. "Hopefully the public will begin to understand," she said.
Note to radical leftists, start demonstrations now!
Argle bargle.
Maybe after they throw a few of these knuckleheads in jail they will take this war seriously and not as just another excercise to score a few political points.
Clue to Dalglish and the RCFFOTP--if we lose this war, how much "freedom of the press" do you suppose we'll have? Maybe Dalglish et al should give some consideration to what's at stake. Hint: it's more than causing problems for the President. It's our very existence.
Ummm NO E&P. You do NOT get to demand the 1st Amendment does NOT protect "journalists" when you think the Plame-Wilson slander is going to "get Bush" then turn around and demand to be shielded because one of your pet stooges breaks dozens of Laws to leak SERIOUS classified info. IF the National Security issues involved in the mythical leak of Plame's CIA status OVERRULED the failed media's need to be shielded in the Affair Du Plame, the SAME principal CERTAINLY applies in this FAR more serious breach of classified info. You sowed the win American Leftist, reap now the whirlwind.
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