U.S. Subpoenas Newspaper for Sources in Steroid Case

[YankeyMCC]

In the latest effort by the government to learn the identities of reporters' confidential sources, the United States attorney in Los Angeles issued grand jury subpoenas to The San Francisco Chronicle and two of its reporters on Friday.

The relative ordinariness of the case, which arose out of reporting on steroid use in baseball rather than on covert operatives, domestic eavesdropping or secret prisons, may make its outcome instructive.

As a practical matter, the case will answer whether, after a series of recent setbacks, reporters retain any rights to protect their confidential sources in federal court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/us/09leak.html


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I know I'm probably preaching to the choir but here we go with yet another example of the congress exerting power over the people instead for the people and over other branches of government. They can't or wont go after a powerful and imperial president so they go after the press and the people.

I would be hard pressed to think of a more clear example of the corruption of our constitutional principals and the threat to this nation's progress toward a prosperous future with a free people.

[adriennui]

1. steroid use is the most important issue of our time

who f--kin' cares? another diversion for the feeble minded public and MSM to obsess over.

[Lerkfish]

2. I'm glad steroid use by a group that represents less than one hundredth

of a percent of the population, that plays a kid's game no less, is of higher importance than state-sanctioned hidden torture prisons.

:sarcasm:

[madrchsod]

3. steriod use is a big issue

and bigger than that is the government using it as a way to kill off investigative reports. so to those who it this is trival, when someone builds a chemical dump in your back yard you`ll never find out who purchased the land and who is the real owners because reporters will not be able to protect those who give them the truth.