The message you sent to me was viewed by Ms. Miller as inherently 'mixed,' |
The notes were redacted to omit everything but the notes taken concerning discussions with Libby about Plame. |
The story wasn't there, ... It was a mistake. It was a bad mistake, and CNN has apologized for it, as I think they should. |
There is a great reluctance on the part of journalists..to pick up the phone and sort of badger sources into relieving them of the promises they made, especially at the time that the promises are most important, when the source is in trouble. This is a very difficult and very delicate area. |
to assure that the only source he would effectively be asking about was Mr. Libby. |
Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago. |
voluntary and not coerced. |
We would be defending that. Mr. Risen did a serious and solid job. He has made no apology. |
When the conversation was over, and I started thinking about the conversation, it occurred to me that the one thing Mr. Tate could probably never say to me is [Libby] wants her to shut up because that could be obstruction of justice. |
Where the disclosure is of newsworthy information and it is made by an entity that did not act illegally in obtaining the information, the disclosure is generally protected under the First Amendment. |
While Judy Miller sat in jail for 85 days and Mr. Libby knew that she was doing it to protect him, no call came in from him, no letter arrived from him, |
will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in. |
You never told me, |