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  • "In re Subpeonas, re J. Miller"

    10/22/2005 7:16:36 PM PDT · by churchillbuff · 108 replies · 3,195+ views
    D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ^ | February 05 | D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
    At the end of his long opinion on the jailing of Miller, which I have linked, Judge Tatel said that the reporters' privilege yields, in this case, to “THE GRAVITY OF THE REPORTED CRIME.”(My caps)I don't like Laurence O'Donnell, but he's stating a fact when he reports the following: "Judge Tatel’s opinion has eight blank pages in the middle of it where he discusses the secret information the prosecutor has supplied only to the judges to convince them that the testimony he is demanding is worth sending reporters to jail to get. The gravity of the suspected crime is presumably...