Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Another Blow for Journalism

The mythical constitutional privilege of journalists to protect their sources, has been dealt a hammer blow today in the Valerie Plame leak case. The DC Circuit Court has held that there is no such privilege in the Constitution. To me, the reporters in this case were accomplices of the leaker, and if he/she was guilty of violating the law (a conclusion I'm not convinced of), so were they.

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