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NY Times Reporter Gets Jail Time for Refusing to Divulge Source

From AP:

A federal judge on Wednesday jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating who in the Bush administration leaked an undercover CIA operative's name.

Miler is resolute, thus far, in protecting her source but Cooper has changed his mind.

"I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions" for not testifying, Cooper said. But he told the judge that not long before his early afternoon appearance, he had received"in somewhat dramatic fashion" a direct personal communication from his source freeing him from his commitment to keep the source's identity secret.

If the source has given Cooper the green light, that means that the source may not believe that any prosecutorial harm will come to the source. This is in keeping with the 'no accountability' standard that has been the hallmark of this administration.

posted by niteskolar @ 5:20 PM