Why journalists must be held accountable
Matt Cooper and Judith Miller are going to jail, as they should.
“But how can you say that - they are protecting the First Amendment!”
Wrong. I am protecting the rule of law. No man can stand above the law, and nobody should appreciate that more than the mainstream media.
What has essentially happened here, is the same people bleating over how Cooper and Miller should be lionized for not revelaing the sources of the “leak” of Valerie Plame are the same ones who want investigations, convictions, impeachments, and/or imprisonment for whomever the leaker is.
Problem is there are three people who know who the leaker are, and they aren’t talking. How is anyone supposed to get to the truth if the only people that KNOW the truth are deliberately obscuring it.
What we see here is that Cooper and Miller are willing to go to prison NOT to protect anonymous sources, but to defend the liberal agenda of destroying the president. I suspect that the leaker is NOT in the administration at all, because if it was, there is no way the media would keep it quiet. As long as the left can keep the identity of the leaker hidden, they can put forth all kinds of conspiracy theories about it being Rove, or Cheney, etc.
I suspect the truth is far more disgusting, and it is someone either in the CIA (looking to sabotage yet another president), or Joseph Wilson (of getting Rove “frog-marched out of the White House” fame).
There is simply no reasonable justification for the administration to “out” Plame.