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Politics : The Blame For Plame
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From: Karen Lawrence7/6/2005 11:39:31 AM
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Two reporters might be ordered to jail today for refusing to reveal their confidential sources. Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine were held in contempt of court last year for refusing to cooperate in the investigation of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Since December of 2003, Fitzgerald has been investigating how the name of undercover CIA agent, Valerie Plame, ended up in a column written by conservative columnist Robert Novak. Disclosing an undercover agent is a federal crime and Fitzgerald had been investigating whether someone from the White House leaked the story to the press. In court filings, Fitzgerald said, "Journalists are not entitled to promise confidentiality -- no one in America is."

Valerie Plame is the wife of former U.S Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the last US official to meet Saddam Hussein before the start of the 1991 Gulf War. After President Bush's controversial State of the Union address before the invasion of Iraq in which Bush made his case for the war, Wilson wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times disputing one of President Bush's key claims - that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger. This was the administration's main evidence that Iraq was rebuilding its nuclear program and it's chief justification for the invasion. The White House later recanted the claim. Eight days after Wilson's op-ed appeared in the Times, Novak's column in which he revealed Valerie Plame's identity, was published. At the time Wilson charged that it was an attempt by the Bush administration to intimidate other whistleblowers from going public.
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