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Thank you for your E-mail and for sharing your opinions with me.

Ms. Miller's 85-day incarceration brings into specific relief the need for a federal shield law to protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources. Despite how anyone might feel about Ms. Miller's politics or reporting, she has brought considerable attention to the question of the reporter's privilege, a subject about which the Society of Professional Journalists is quite passionate. It is for this reason that the Society's volunteer leadership is making a First Amendment Award to Ms. Miller.

Thanks again for writing,

Terry Harper

Edited to add my final reply to Mr. Harper:

I promise I won't bother you again, but I just have to say that Ms. Miller's jail time was based on her protection of possible criminal conduct & her jail sentence was sanctioned by a federal judge after reading the classified details of Mr. Fitzgerald's case. This same judge had already prepared a lengthy dissent when he changed his mind & made the decision that Ms. Miller should serve jail time.

Regardless of the controversy in regard to the First Amendment, Ms. Miller is not worthy of an award that praises her "integrity". She was probably afraid for her life more than she wanted to maintain her "journalistic integrity" -- when you lay down with dogs, you get fleas.