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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (690313)	7/6/2005 3:41:03 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The International Herald Tribune - PLAME-gate iht.com Prosecutor demands reporter's testimony The Associated Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2005 WASHINGTON A federal prosecutor demanded Tuesday that a Time magazine reporter, Matthew Cooper, testify before a grand jury investigating the leaking of a CIA officer's identity, even though Time has surrendered e-mails and other documents connected with the investigation. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald also opposed requests by Cooper and another reporter, Judith Miller of The New York Times, that they be granted home detention instead of jail for refusing to disclose their sources. Allowing the reporters home confinement would make it easier for them to continue to defy a court order that they testify, he said. Special treatment for journalists may "negate the coercive effect contemplated by federal law," Fitzgerald wrote in filings with the court. "Journalists are not entitled to promise complete confidentiality - no one in America is," he wrote. Fitzgerald is investigating who in the administration leaked the identity of a CIA officer, Valerie Plame. Plame's name was first published in a 2003 column by Robert Novak, who cited two unidentified senior Bush administration officials as his sources. Novak has refused to say whether he has testified or been subpoenaed. Miller and Cooper could be ordered to jail as early as Wednesday, when a U.S. district judge, Thomas Hogan, will hear arguments from Fitzgerald and lawyers for the reporters about whether they should testify. Hogan has found the reporters in contempt of court for their refusal to divulge their sources and he indicated last week that he was prepared to send them to jail if they did not cooperate. In his court filings, Fitzgerald said it was essential for courts to enforce their contempt orders so that grand juries could get the evidence they needed.