Word: jaile
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...agrees to the deal, a blood oath has been signed, no matter how scurrilous or trivial the information involved. You don't break the oath or even hedge on it. You agree to stand outside the law respectfully, not "above" it, and to suffer the consequences. You go to jail to protect your source, if necessary. If you do not adhere to these tribal rules, other potential sources will surely notice and you will be considered unreliable. It is not an elegant system--and yes, there are exceptions to the rules (on matters of imminent national or individual peril...
...well- integrated boy of Moroccan descent," revert to such radicalism? Lots of explanations were offered at the trial. The timing of his religious revival coincided with his mother's death. Bouyeri was also in close contact with a group of Islamic radicals, many of whom are now in jail on suspicion of terrorist activities. But all this seemed to leave the suspect unfazed. As Bouyeri told the judges: "You can send in all your psychologists, psychiatrists and experts. You will never understand this, you cannot understand...
...first interview with the President, and I expected a simple "Hello" when I walked into the Oval Office last December. Instead, George W. Bush joked, "Cooper! I thought you'd be in jail by now." The leader of the free world, it seems, had been following my fight against a federal subpoena seeking my testimony in the case of the leaking of the name of a CIA officer. I thought it was funny and good-natured of the President, but the line reminded me that I was, very weirdly, in the Oval Office, out on bond from a prison sentence...
...with Fitzgerald, a couple of his attorneys and the lead FBI agent in the case. It was, to say the least, unsettling sitting there in the federal courthouse in Washington with the man who, for months, had tried to get me to testify or he would put me in jail. Fitzgerald counseled me that he wanted me to answer completely but didn't want to force any answers on me or have me act as if I remembered things more clearly than I did. "If I show you a picture of your kindergarten teacher and it really refreshes your memory...
...over files Cooper had used to co-author a Time.com story about the leaks, fought the order up to the Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case two weeks ago. Subsequently, Norman Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time Inc., surrendered the documents. Cooper was prepared to go to jail, but just before he was set to face the judge, his source released him from his pledge of confidentiality, freeing him to testify before the grand jury. And who was Cooper's source? A number of news organizations named Karl Rove, President Bush's senior political adviser. TIME'S editors...