Time Inc. said Thursday it would comply with a court order to deliver the notes of a reporter threatened with jail in the investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan is threatening to jail Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times for contempt for refusing to disclose their sources.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the reporters' appeal and the grand jury investigating the leak expires in October. The reporters, if in jail, would be freed at that time.
Guardian article
But no one responsible for giving the information to the reporters - and by the way, these
aren't the reporters who printed the information - will be going to jail. You can bet your buns on that one. And this is unfortunate, because, like Joe Wilson, I was looking forward to the day when Karl Rove would be "frog marched from the White House in handcuffs."
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