NationStates Jolt Archive


And in other news, another dingleberry may have hit the fan in the Rove/Plame case.

Gymoor II The Return
30-09-2005, 06:19
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/29/cia.leak/index.html

Miller's singing, and her source was Libby.

Hmmm. 2 sources. Same story. But none of it was intentional. Move along folks, nothing to see here...
Silliopolous
30-09-2005, 06:23
I don't believe most people had any doubt that it was Rove and Libby, they just needed confirmation, which they appear to now have.
Keruvalia
30-09-2005, 06:28
Hooray! Dingleberries!

I almost thought they'd gone extinct.
The Doors Corporation
30-09-2005, 07:16
Did you k now a dingleberry is a piece of poop that hangs onto your butt hairs after you have crapped and wiped?
Fass
30-09-2005, 07:37
They can jail you and force you to reveal a journalistic source in the US? :eek:
Gymoor II The Return
30-09-2005, 07:41
They can jail you and force you to reveal a journalistic source in the US? :eek:

Not normally, no. In this case, the "source" was the person actually committing the alleged crime itself. No source, no crime. Therefore the journalist was ordered to cooperate with he Grand Jury.

Someone more versed in law can probably explain this better, but it is a rather gray area.
Gartref
30-09-2005, 07:51
Someone more versed in law can probably explain this better, but it is a rather gray area.

Let me try. In the U.S. you can be forced to reveal a journalistic source if they are legally defined as a dingleberry. You can be held in contempt indefinately no matter how much you wipe. Exceptions to this rule involve the voluntary shaving of all butt hair. This case contrasts starkly with the Novak controversy which involved multiple douchebags. Some legal experts have argued that a douchebag can be effective against dingleberries, but this has been untested in case law.