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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (27268)	7/10/2005 8:27:01 AM
From: Ron	Respond to of 361298

What's a little disagreement between friends? I tend to go with broad principles when it comes to press freedom, having seen firsthand for many years the pressures and various forms of censorship that come between the reporter at the keyboard and members of the public who want information. My hope is that this particular attack on press rights bears productive fruit: the indictment and imprisonment of a bastard who outed a CIA operative. My concern is that lazy federal prosecutors everywhere will see reporters as fair game, substitutes for legitimate investigations and evidence gathering. This would then make it much harder for legitimate investigative reporters to get whistleblowers to talk. Anyway the current theory is that sleazeball Novak, who actually did out Plame as a CIA operative, then sang like a bird when he appeared before the grand jury, and they are looking for corroboration so they can proceed with the case. And hopefully nail Rove, Cheney or other miscreants in the White House.