In Major Ruling, Court Orders Times Reporter to Testify
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#2The following really struck me:
"In a 118-page set of opinions, two members of a three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va. — the court whose decisions cover the Pentagon and the C.I.A. — ruled that the First Amendment provides no protection to reporters who receive unauthorized leaks from being forced to testify against the people suspected of leaking to them."
Especially seeing as there is no such thing a leak that isn't unauthorized. It seems another step in hiding information from the public because would-be leakers now need to worry that the reporter they give information to would be forced to reveal their source.
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#3This is eerily similar to the plot of the movie "Nothing but the truth" starring Kate Beckinsale as a reporter outing a C.I.A. agent. In the movie the reporter outs a C.I.A. operative and is then prosecuted for not revealing her source. If I understand correctly in this case the situation is even worse, the source of the leak is known and been prosecuted and the reporter has been asked to testify in his trial, though I guess the reporter never breached the law.
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#4The government ruled in favor of the government and against individual rights again? At least they're consistent.
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#5The government ruled in favor of the government and against individual rights again? At least they're consistent.
the courts always rule in favor of the executive branch. every single ruling. don't even bother reading the opinions; there's nothing useful in those. if you see "United States" at the top, you'll immediately know the victor.
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#6Paywalled. Anyone got a readable link?
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#7Anybody surprised about this?
This is in line with what we have seen before. The "war on the whistle blower".
Next we'll see attempts to make it illegal to publish classified information after it has been received (or maybe it is already - see the Wikileaks disaster). In that case the reporter and the news outlet itself would be held responsible.
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#8Doesn't seem any different than Judith Miller, who is mentioned at the end of page 2. She went to prison instead of revealing her sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#Contempt_of_cour...
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#9Paywalled. Anyone got a readable link?
Delete your nytimes.com cookies, refresh.
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#10The government ruled in favor of the government and against individual rights again? At least they're consistent.
the courts always rule in favor of the executive branch. every single ruling. don't even bother reading the opinions; there's nothing useful in those. if you see "United States" at the top, you'll immediately know the victor.
You mean like in Hamdi?