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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...
...Intelligence 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...
...Matthew P. Downer ’07, president of the Harvard Republican Club and co-founder of the recently-formed Students for Larry, has emerged as a quasi-celebrity in the media maelstorm over the past several days. He said he had been giving “constant interviews” to reporters from an array of news outlets—including CNN’s William Schneider, a former associate professor of government at Harvard. Downer said his grandmother in St. Louis is keeping tapes of his television appearances—but his mentions in the media are becoming...
...President Matthew J. Glazer ’06, who said before the meeting that the UC would not be making a statement on the Summers debate because the campus is “significantly mixed on the topic,” said after the meeting that the bill did not get voted to consider because there is no campus or UC consensus...
Glazer also announced the 12 members of the UC’s newly-formed Reform Commission, which will investigate possible structural changes to the UC, first suggested by former President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 last month. Chair of the Election Commission Jon D. Einkauf ’06 will be the chair of the Commission, whose membership is divided evenly between UC and non-UC representatives...