The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today that Judith Miller from the New York Times and Matthew Cooper from Time Magazine have to testify about their sources in the Valerie Plame outing scandal.
The Washington Post reports:
A New York Times reporter and a Time magazine reporter can be jailed if they continue to refuse to answer questions before a grand jury about their confidential conversations with government sources, a federal appeals court decided this morning.Maybe now Fitzgerald will get some answers. Of course, President Bush could tell whoever on his staff leaked the information to fess up. What a concept. Enforce the law in the White House. Then, this thing wouldn't keep dragging on. Then, we wouldn't have court cases about reporters trying to hide confidential sources.
But it does say something about the press. They were apparently used by the Administration to break the law. And, now, they are facing the consequences.
The only real justice here would be for whoever outed the spy (and in doing so undermined national security) to get a very long jail term. Well, it would be great too for them to share a cell with Bob Novak who was the first reporter to print Plame's name. That smug bastard put all of our lives in danger given the extremely sensitive nature of Plame's work.
And, lest we forget our favorite White House fake, remember, Gannon/Guckert was "reporting" on the Plame memo, too.
