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Jailing Journalists 
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February 17 2005

You won't often read this on an editorial page, but journalists are not above the law. This uncomfortable truth was reaffirmed by three federal judges on Tuesday. They upheld a lower court ruling that two journalists — Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matt Cooper of Time magazine — will have to go to jail if they won't reveal their sources to Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating White House leaks. 

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-reporters17feb17,0,461406.story 

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