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To: okie01; cyncooper

From a CNN interview

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/20/rs.01.html

COOPER: Well, first of all, it's not entirely -- I -- without saying, disclosing, what everyone wants to know, I wouldn't be entirely certain about, you know, the motivation of the leakers, who leaked what, when, where, how.

But that said, look, journalism needs to be able to protect its sources in order to be able to function. It's the only way to ferret out information. And we need to be able to do that.

Now, I will readily concede that at times that may not make the life of a prosecutor easier. But that's not my job in society is to make the life of a prosecutor easier. You know, I gave limited testimony to a prosecutor last year after one of my sources absolved me of our promise of confidentiality, and I was happy to do so, and would do it again.

KURTZ: An aide to Vice President Cheney.

COOPER: I would do it again, right. But this time the prosecutors asked for really, basically, every one of my sources and my notebook. That's much harder to comply with.


47 posted on 02/27/2005 4:38:07 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy
COOPER: I would do it again, right. But this time the prosecutors asked for really, basically, every one of my sources and my notebook. That's much harder to comply with.

Things that make you go hmmmm....

55 posted on 02/27/2005 10:02:55 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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