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To: LindyBill who wrote (10448)	10/2/2003 8:43:51 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793706

Interesting Reynolds post. I read the Times editorial over lunch and was struck by the line they were trying to draw. They noted there are clearly circumstances--a serial killer, for instance--in which a journalist has an obligation to forget the source projection routine. The question is whether this is that dramatic. I don't know. It depends on an answer to the rather complicated question of whether lives are at stake here. I'm still thinking about this one. My first take is that journalists should not be pressed to reveal sources in this case. But, as I say, it might be instantly reversible. As for the politics of it, there is no doubt the Bush administration would take grief beyond belief if it advanced things that way. That would be a nightmare for Karl Rove.