Judge Orders Reporters (TM) to Reveal Sources
Judge Orders Reporters to Reveal Sources 4 News Organizations Told to Identify Officials Interviewed in Wen Ho Lee Reports ... His lawyers have encountered what the judge described as "a pattern of denials, vague or evasive answers, and stonewalling" on the part of the government officials they questioned. That gives Lee's attorneys the right, Jackson said, to demand that certain journalists who wrote about the case say which officials might have provided the information. "This is kind of bad news," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She said it is highly unusual for a judge to order so many reporters at once to divulge their sources and almost unprecedented in a case in which no criminal actions are alleged. ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26919-2003Oct14?language=printer
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