Wen Ho Lee Reporters Held in Contempt

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON - A federal judge held five reporters in contempt Wednesday for refusing to identify their sources for stories about Wen Ho Lee (news - web sites), a former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of spying.


U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson imposed a fine of $500 a day each for Associated Press reporter H. Josef Hebert; James Risen and Jeff Gerth of The New York Times; Robert Drogin of the Los Angeles Times; and Pierre Thomas of ABC, who was at CNN when the stories were done.

Jackson said the fines would be delayed pending appeals. Attorneys for the journalists said they would appeal.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=513&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20040819/ap_on_go_ot/wen_ho_lee_reporters

[Nambe]

1. His case is so old, I didn't recognise his name.

There is something wrong in our judicial priorities, but I'll leave that to somebody else.

[Rose Siding]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=760595

[aquart]

3. I've held them in contempt for way longer.

Hasn't everyone?

[Merlin]

4. Jackson is a famous judge who deals in complex cases.

If I'm not mistaken, he presided over the endless AT&T antitrust case many years ago.