Word: noriega
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Should the dispute over the tapes let Noriega off the hook, the government will have to shoulder the blame. The public will have to bear the burden of unanswered questions that a fair trial may have helped to answer. It was not CNN but federal officials who ordered the recording of the calls. They, and not the First Amendment nor the American public, should bear the consequences of that decision...
...special leeway in those cases. The CNN dispute fits squarely into that mould. The power that the national media can wield may be frightening, but it is mild in comparison to the danger of placing editorial decisions in the hands of the judiciary. Moreover, given the questionable complicity between Noriega and the United States Government, we cannot allow that secrecy to continue...
...staff fears that this decision will set a precedent of judicial restraint of American media. If CNN is prevented from airing tapes on the grounds that Noriega's right to a fair trial has been abridged, as this opinion reasons, then it is foreseeable that federal marshalls will march into America's newsrooms and pull stories with only the weakest of possibilities that it could damage right to a fair trial...
...been suggested that Noriega forgot to tell prison officials that these phone calls were to his attorney. The staff has assumed prosecutors would have access to the tapes. There is no evidence that this is what happened...
...case of the CNN tapes of conversations between Manuel Noriega and his lawyers, we feel that the Supreme Court was justified in its decision...