Word: quash
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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...
...particular a 1972 case, Branzburg v. Hayes, in which a reporter witnessed two individuals “synthesizing hashish from marihuana [sic].” We are no legal experts, but both Branzburg, and the two cases the Court cited in its decision to deny Branzburg his petition to quash a subpoena, involved a reporter offering confidentiality in order to observe criminal acts. Irrespective of the propriety of this precedent, the cases seem to be utterly and completely different; Cooper and Miller were gathering facts on a crime that had already occurred, a crime that in the first place...
...approaching a showdown. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has ordered two reporters, including TIME White House correspondent Matthew Cooper, to tell a grand jury who might have disclosed to them the identity of a covert CIA officer during a tangled political dustup in the summer of 2003. TIME sought to quash the subpoena through most of 2004, but last week a federal appeals court ruled that Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times must testify or face civil contempt penalties, which usually means jail. Both TIME and the New York Times will appeal the ruling, going...
...camp, which details the Blair-Brown feud and describes their relationship as becoming one of "mutual animosity and contempt." Blair denies Peston's account, describing the book as "tittle-tattle," but Brown does not. Alarmed Labourites confront the pair at a heated meeting, and put pressure on them to quash the fuss. The next day, Brown says, "Of course I trust the Prime Minister...
...small tech shop based in Montreal. On most pdas and cell phones, Web pages are crunched and reformatted and take too long to download. On the Pocket Surfer, however, pages look just like those on your laptop: pictures, links, even pop-up ads (fortunately, the Pocket Surfer lets you quash those nuisances with a single button). And it's easy to set up. DataWind gives you an adapter to plug into your cell phone, which connects the Pocket Surfer to a wireless Web network. The downsides: you can't chat on the phone and be online simultaneously, and the thumb...