Judge Orders Reporters (TM) to Reveal Sources

[Major Variola (ret.)]

Judge Orders Reporters to Reveal Sources
4 News Organizations Told to Identify Officials Interviewed in Wen Ho
Lee Reports

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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.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26919-2003Oct14?language=printer