http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64680,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 or, the HTML crap free version: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64680,00.html Attacking the Fourth Estate By Adam L. Penenberg | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 2 next 02:00 AM Aug. 25, 2004 PT John Ashcroft and the Department of Justice must be stopped. There, I've said it. Of course, now I half expect federal agents to drag me off to prison for violating the No One Dare Question the Government While We Are Engaged in the War Against Terror Act. (Duration: perhaps forever.) Sure, you say, no such act exists. But Ashcroft himself once testified that bellyaching over what he called "phantoms of lost liberty" only serves to "aid terrorists" and "give ammunition to America's enemies." And recently FBI agents attempted to intimidate political activists by visiting them at their homes to warn about causing trouble at the upcoming Republican convention. More to the point, under Justice Department guidelines, Ashcroft must approve any subpoena of a journalist, so how do you explain the rash of subpoenas that Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney from Chicago, has doled out to Time magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC? Already one reporter -- Matthew Cooper from Time -- has been held in contempt by a federal judge for refusing to appear before the grand jury that Fitzgerald convened to investigate which Bush administration senior official(s) leaked a covert spy's identity to columnist Robert Novak. <SNIP> ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our people, and neither do we." -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + : War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -------------------------------------------------------------------------