DSK wrote:
Curtis CCR wrote:
You should have paid attention in school. You cannot be compelled to
testify against *yourself*.

Really? Does that include being forced to hand over documents, including
ones which probably don't exist? Seems to me that people are compelled
to testify against themselves all the time.

Yes. You can be compelled to hand over documents. Documents can be
entered into evidence - They are not testitmony. (Before some wise-ass
tries to bring up transcripts from depositions, those are different
kinds of documents).


... People are compelled to testify against
others in court everyday.

And this makes it right? Especially the situation under discussion, that
two reporters considered hostile by the Administration are ordered to
jail while other reporters who have done the exact same thing but are
pro-Bush/Cheney walk free?

Let me see if I have the correct score here.

ONE reporter sits in jail for refusing to disclose information she says
she has. Miller says she won't reveal her source - I don't believe any
one has ever claimed that she didn't have a source. She is not sitting
in jail for refusing to testify against herself. Get that straight -
there is no fifth ammendment issue here.

And yes, the general principal of compelling people to testify in court
is quite sound.

And what about Plame's husband? Jeeezzz.. He is worried about his
wife's career? Why has been on every mountaintop he can find for the
last year yelling, "These dirty *******s told everyone that my wife is
a CIA agent? Did you hear me?!?! I said these guys are telling people
that my wife is a CIA agent!!!"


I think it's not so much his wife's career, but a career move for
himself

However, John Cairns has a good point... not much in the news about the
situation.


There isn't much to report. You are not seeing a lot of detail in the
news about this because nobody in the news business knows more than a
couple of facts about the case.

We still don't know if a crime was committed.

Possibly, but it seems pretty likely that one was.

You have nothing to back that up. The question is still very much up
in the air and you have nothing to show that it is "pretty likely" to
fall one way or another. Please list what verified facts you have that
show a crime was committed. We don't know if this special prosecutor
is looking to charge anyone with anything, or if he just digging to the
bottom what will prove to be a political mess.