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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
 
Civil Disobedience?

Judith Miller has characterized her decision to go to jail to protect Karl Rove as a principled case of "civil disobedience" in favor of the general principle that journalists should go to all lengths to protect sources (although, in her case, we all know her source by this point), despite the fact that all of the courts have ruled that she should testify and no such protection exists.

Yet it certainly seems that after poor Judith got lambasted for her articles parroting neo-conservative statements about Saddam's WMD capabilities before the Iraq war, Judy has some motivation to try to change how she is perceived as a journalist. And trying to become a martyr is as good a place to start as any, I'm sure she's thinking.

But as she and her editors characterize this as "civil disobedience," it's worth considering: what if Nixon had refused to turn over the Watergate tapes after the Supreme Court's decision, on the basis that the principle he was defending (executive privilege) was more important that the rule of law?

- posted by Joshua @ 7:38 AM
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