-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Chris Knight <uunet!crl.com!cknight> writes:

[quoting Phil Karn]

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There was a flurry of laws during the 1970s that extended somewhat similar privileges to reporters and their sources, but they don't seem to have held up very well since the Big Lurch to the Right.

As I mentioned in the second paragraph of my original letter (The one you didn't quote in your reply), I stated that those cases didn't hold against reporters because of constutional backing (i.e. Freedom of the Press). A protection which we do not have, unless you happen to publish.

That constitutional backing is of questionable value - Rik Scarce (author of the book "Ecowarriors") recently spent months in jail in Washington State for refusing to reveal, to a federal grand jury, the whereabouts of a person he interviewed for a book about animal rights activists. He was released because a federal appellate court was convinced that holding him longer wouldn't make him reveal the information sought. - -- Greg Broiles "Sometimes you're the windshield, greg@goldenbear.com sometimes you're the bug." -- Mark Knopfler -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.4 iQCVAgUBLUYrNn3YhjZY3fMNAQGoPAP/W9ScBEcSeIFQ+ZKljRIyYGS9pV/vghEe EVTIBdmx9PQSwDTTIZITcApcr8vwdyGP3gzLghXfWDfYQz5ZhWlt7W8bgzZlBb3x geUVnSovXwWGqse2ZwlFEZrc8t1YfJcjYYktarhOFSl7Ko/K8ETEEY8zPaOLuRaM /5KygvnmWRc= =m1yI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----