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Default OT--Pincus in trouble with the courts...but not for the Plame fiasco. Yet.


NOYB wrote:
Judge Finds Post Reporter in Contempt


Nov 16, 10:40 PM (ET)

By PETE YOST



WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge found Washington Post reporter Walter
Pincus in contempt Wednesday, saying the journalist must reveal his
government sources for stories about the criminal investigation of nuclear
scientist Wen Ho Lee.

U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer said that "in order to avoid a
repetition of the Judith Miller imbroglio," Pincus must contact his sources
to inform them of the court's order in case they wish to release him from
his pledge of confidentiality.



http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051117/D8DTVNF82.html




Good news for your side. For now.

Where this is all going, of course, is to a point where people will be
afraid to talk to a reporter. That's absolutely perfect when there is
an executive in power, R or D, with a lot of "secrets" to hide. Think
of how much harder it would have been for you guys to roast Clinton if
everybody involved in ratting out his boss knew his or her name would
be on the front page of every daily newspaper in the country.

If you think beyond 2008, you might not be so happy to see the press
hamstrung by the judiciary.