NYT: Plame (graphic, article, "Reporters Put Under Scrutiny in CIA Leak")

[DeepModem Mom]

Reporters Put Under Scrutiny in C.I.A. Leak
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: September 28, 2004

....Leak investigations are often halfhearted and one-sided enterprises. Suspected leakers are questioned, not always vigorously or under oath, and the source of the disclosure is seldom found. The journalists who could say for sure are almost never subpoenaed.

The Plame case is different. This is largely because, unlike most leaks, the disclosure of an undercover intelligence agent's identity is a felony. The disclosure of Ms. Plame's identity, moreover, may have been motivated by politics. And the investigation inside the government, in which the president, the vice president and many other officials have been questioned, seems to have been both exhaustive and inconclusive.

The only remaining witnesses to the crime are the journalists who received the information about Ms. Plame, leaving them to make agonizing choices against a backdrop of diminishing legal protection. In recent years, courts have become increasingly skeptical of a journalistic article of faith: that the benefits to society of the information provided by confidential sources outweigh the costs to the justice system of allowing reporters to protect their sources....

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But experts in law and journalism are nonetheless at odds over whether the spectacle of reporters testifying about people who gave them information in confidence sends the wrong message, to the public and to potential sources. Some say it may do lasting damage to the bonds of trust built between sources and journalists over several decades....

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/politics/28leak.html?hp

[leftchick]

1. once again....

Why the hell is judith miller still employed at the NYT?

:grr:

[gandalf]

2. Perhaps she contributes to the bottom line.

The NYT is a news company the business model of which is to sell an attractive audience to advertisers.

As long as Miller seems suitable to attract an audience the advertisers are willing to pay for, the NYT will employ her.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. And why is Novak employed ANYWHERE -- and still out of jail?

n/t

[leftchick]

4. very true....

he makes me sick and he is on tv everywhere spewing his hateful lies... :puke:

[ClintonTyree]

5. Novak...............

the person central to the entire affair, hasn't been ordered to testify? At least not to anyone's knowledge. This Douchebag for Freedom should be put in front of a firing squad on National Television for his treasonous and seditious acts. End of freaking story.

[Lord_StarFyre]

6. Why is Novakula

...being excluded from this Investigation?

The man has OPENLY committed Treason, and he's being left alone...

[DeepModem Mom]

7. I know little about legal processes -- can there be any validity...

to the guessing I've seen that Novak is being left alone because he is a big target, who will be dealt with later, after info is garnered from others?