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Originally posted by Cowperson@Aug 9 2004, 02:43 PM
Should reporters be forced to name sources in situations like this?
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Also from the article:
"Disclosing the identity of a covert C.I.A. officer can be a crime" -- I think that says it all. If the source committed a crime, you shouldn't be able to hide behind a press badge.
I must say, though, that I found this to be a poorly written article. They don't name Cooper, the reporter in question, until the 5th paragraph, and then it's only in a quote. Then the next paragraph starts
"The grand jury is to determine who told Robert D. Novak, the syndicated columnist, the identity of the C.I.A. officer..." which, the first time I read the article quickly, lead me to conclude that Novak was the columnist going to jail.
In fact, why isn't Novak in the same boat as Cooper? I'd be all for sending
him to prison B)