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  • WSJ: U.S. Prosecutor Says Reporters Deserve Jail (Miller and Cooper of the NY Times and Time)

    07/06/2005 5:46:46 AM PDT · by OESY · 29 replies · 883+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | July 6, 2005 | JOE HAGAN
    Apparently unappeased by Time Inc.'s offer last week to turn over a reporter's notes related to confidential sources, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald filed tough-language legal papers yesterday arguing that Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper, as well as New York Times reporter Judith Miller, should go to jail for civil contempt. "Journalists are not entitled to promise complete confidentiality -- no one in America is," wrote Mr. Fitzgerald, speaking of the reporters' pledge to their sources. Mr. Fitzgerald was appointed by the Bush administration to investigate a government leak that exposed the identity of Central Intelligence Agency operative Valerie Plame...