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You know, I'm all for a free press. Presidents in the past, starting with John Adams, have tried to limit reporting based on everything from national security to libel and slander, and all have been overturned. I agree with the bedrock case of NYT v. John Peter Zenger, in which the press is free to print whatever they want, no matter how slanderous, if it's the truth. Many "free" countries, such as Australia and the UK, don't have such journalistic freedom we have in the States, for better or worse.

This Plame thing bugs me, though. Doctors have doctor-patient privilege, unless a crime has been committed, in which case they must break that privilege. Same with lawyers. Presidents have attempted executive privilege in the face of crimes, Nixon and Clinton being the most visible, and the Supreme Court shot them down, too. Senators aren't exempt, nor are judges. Why should journalists get a privilege that no one else in this country has?

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Political conspiracy theory I just came up with.

The Plame source is actually a Democrat, but Karl Rove leaked his own name to get liberals drooling. When the truth comes out, Rove will have made a bunch of liberal columnists and lawmakers look very, very foolish, right before a Supreme Court battle.



Okay, probably not likely, but it would make a good political thriller.