SCOTUS Rules Against New York Times

Woo Hoo! A victory for the good guys. The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Crimes Slimes Traitors  Times. Ginsburg must have been suffering from sleep apnea. From STACLU Here;

The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe.

The one-sentence order came in a First Amendment battle that involves stories written in 2001 by Times reporters Judith Miller and Philip Shenon revealing the government’s plans to freeze the assets of two Islamic charities, the Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation.

Shenon and Miller called the two organizations for comment after being told by confidential sources of the government’s plans.

The Justice Department says the move tipped off the charities of planned government raids. The federal judge who ruled in the Times’ favor said there is no evidence in the case even suggesting that the reporters tipped off the charities about the raids or that the reporters even knew of the government’s plans to raid either charity.

The government says that the fact that the reporters relayed disclosures from a government source to “targets of an imminent law enforcement action substantially weakens any claim of freedom of the press.”

Comments

[danceswithgoats]

Judith Miller? Haven't we heard that name before. I knew Shennon was in on it. Perhaps a stint in jail would set an example for other dirt bag reporters out there.

[Major Mike]

A San Franciso lawyer who teachs at UC Berkeley writes that the Bush administration erodes press freedom, but praises the Supreme Court for protecting it. With today's news from the Supreme Court, it looks like he may have wrote too soon. If reporters can't ignore the law, what is the world coming to?

[DoctorDentons]

My liberal neighbor is still holding onto his NYT stock...he keeps telling me that it is going to rebound now that "his" people are back in power.......Yeah Right !