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More Plame Fall-out

by John Cole|  July 20, 20051:01 pm| 4 Comments

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This time in the form of a federal ‘shield law:’

Under fire for presidential adviser Karl Rove’s role in the leak of an undercover CIA agent’s identity, the Bush administration on Wednesday labeled as “bad public policy” legislation to protect reporters from being jailed when they refuse to reveal their sources.

Deputy Attorney General James Comey canceled his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee just before a hearing on this issue was to commence Wednesday morning. In prepared remarks already submitted to the panel, Comey said the measure would “create serious impediments” to the Justice Department’s ability “to effectively enforce the law and fight terrorism.”

“The bill is bad public policy primarily because it would bar the government from obtaining information about media sources _ even in the most urgent of circumstances affecting the public’s health or safety or national security,” Comey’s prepared remarks said.

“If that is so,” said Sen. Christopher Dodd, “then wouldn’t we expect to see great threats to public safety in those states that have shield laws which are at least as protective as the shield laws that we propose?” Dodd, D-Conn., is a consponsor of the Senate bill.

Although, to cynics on the left, no shield law is necessary:

All day long, administration leakers jerked the media’s chain. “It’s Judge Edith 1,” they whispered, on double super duper background. Then: “No, it’s Judge Edith 2!” If the day had been longer, no doubt the Bushies would have tossed even more red herrings to the clapping seals. The Washington press corps, nanoseconds after being forced to admit how humiliatingly it had been spun by Turd Blossom, just lapped it all up. Leak on me again, they begged their sweet sources. Hit me with another scoop, Scottie, hard! The media show all the signs of domestic abuse pathology: they’ve been repeatedly battered and lied to, yet they just can’t bring themselves to flee the lethally dysfunctional relationship. They don’t need a shield law; they need a 12 Step program.

Heh.

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  1. 1.

    p.lukasiak

    July 20, 2005 at 2:27 pm

    A federal shield law is, at this point in time, unnecessary (because current Justice Department policies respect the rights of journalists in the same way that shield laws do), but it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to pass those policies into legislation just the same.

    Its also important to note that even the strongest advocates of shield laws recognize that Judith Miller would not be covered under the existing various state shield laws, which are designed to protect whistleblowers and journalists who use them as sources, and are not designed to make sure that journalists can maintain their access by spreading unattributed political spin, rumor, innuendo, and lies.

  2. 2.

    ppGaz

    July 20, 2005 at 3:13 pm

    I have never gotten anyone to explain to me what the difference is between these two assertions:

    1. There is no shield law

    2. Any conversation you have with anyone about anything at any time is hereby judged to be the property of the government, to use as it sees fit. The government therefore can and will use all necessary force and power to attempt to coerce you to expose your conversations to their scrutiny.

    —-/

    How do you get past #1, without ending up at #2?

    Is the situation described in #2 tenable? I can’t find that it is.

  3. 3.

    Steve

    July 20, 2005 at 4:03 pm

    If there is no statutory shield law, you still have the common law as interpreted by the courts. In many cases, this works out very similarly to how things would work under a shield law. But there is no certainty, which is troubling to some.

  4. 4.

    Oh,Boy.Stupidity!

    November 18, 2005 at 2:41 pm

    If we learn that it was the CIA’s Plame herself who singlehandedly 1) created Osama 2) planted crack in S. Central L.A. and 3) really is at the helm of all those black helicopters, will she then get another full-spread in Vanity Fair?

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