[Mb-civic] Reporters aren't above the law

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Reporters aren't above the law 
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The courts have spoken in the Plame case. Why does the New York Times think it doesn't have to listen?

Michael Kinsley

July 10 2005

When Robert Novak first reported that people in the Bush White House had identified Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA operative, the New York Times was in high dudgeon. Plame is married to Joseph Wilson, a former State Department official who went to Niger in search of evidence for the Iraq war, and then wrote (in the New York Times) that he couldn't find much. Outing Wilson's wife appeared to be the Bush administration's revenge. 

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