"The fundamental right of Americans, through our freepress, to penetrate and criticize the workings of ourgovernment is under attack as never before," wrote WilliamSafire last month. When an alumnus of the Nixon White Housesays our free press is being attacked as "never before,"you listen. What alarms him now are the efforts of PatrickFitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the ValeriePlame-Robert Novak affair, to threaten reporters at TheTimes and Time magazine with jail if they don't revealtheir sources. Given that the Times reporter in question(Judith Miller again) didn't even write an article on thesubject under investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald overreaches sofar that he's created a sci-fi plot twist out of StevenSpielberg's "Minority Report." [thanks to Sharon]
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