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Must the amber fields of liberty be watered with the blood of journalists? We say no, and we hope that a higher court swiftly overrules the panel of the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals, which refused to quash the subpoenas of Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper. What is at stake is not the livelihoods of two reporters, or even the success of a marginally important probe into Bush administration leaks, but the continued strength of the free press as an American institution...
...Agency (CIA) operative, Valerie Plame, to certain journalists to punish her husband for undermining the already spotty rationale for the war in Iraq. On July 14, 2003, the conservative columnist Robert Novak revealed Plame’s profession, citing unnamed sources in the Bush administration. At this point Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times gathered material for stories about the Plame scandal. Cooper testified about one source—Dick Cheney’s chief of staff (who released Cooper from his confidentiality obligations)—and then was subpoenaed a second time...
...news. "The first requirement of the national director of intelligence," Negroponte deadpanned, "is being able to keep a secret." But unless the officeholder can make sure secrets are as well shared as they are guarded, no one will be laughing. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington, Aparisim Ghosh and Charles Crain/Baghdad and Marguerite Michaels/Chicago...
...found no evidence of an Iraqi purchase, yet the Administration continued to make the charge right up until the beginning of the war. After Wilson revealed his tale in July 2003, Plame's name may have been leaked in retaliation. TIME's online story, written chiefly by Cooper, appeared three days after Novak's column, and it wasn't long after that the CIA asked the Justice Department to investigate the leak. A 1982 law made it illegal for government officials to disclose the identity of a covert agent...
...case pits two centuries-old truth-seeking institutions--the press and the grand jury--against each other in a battle with political and national security implications. Both Cooper and Miller are prepared to go to jail rather than reveal their sources' identities. Cooper, 42, has covered politics for more than a decade and has served as deputy chief of TIME's Washington bureau. "Protecting confidences is something that society grants to pastors, doctors, spouses, lawyers, even social workers," notes Cooper. "We believe journalists have a similar privilege." Miller, 57 and a 28-year veteran of the Times, argues that confidential...