NYT journalist goes to prison

Televisionpoint.com Team
New York Times reporter, Ms Judith Miller, was sent to Jail, after she refused to reveal the confidential source for a story she never wrote, the leak of a CIA operative's name. The US Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 protects CIA operatives from being publicly named.

Chief District Judge Mr. Thomas Hogan ordered the marching off, of Judith Miller and ordered she must stay there until she agreed to testify, she will stay for four months in prison.

"This is not a case of a whistle-blower revealing secret information to Mr. Miller about the dangers at a nuclear power plant, It is a case in which the information she was given and her potential use of it was a crime. This is very different than a whistle-blower outing Government misconduct." Mr. Hogan said.

For record it should be noted that, over the past two decades, 18 reporters have been jailed for refusing to identify sources or to turn over information, but most cases have involved minor criminal trials at the local level.