From The New York Times:
A federal judge held a reporter for The New York Times in contempt of court on Thursday for refusing to name her sources to prosecutors investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. agent.
The reporter, Judith Miller, published no articles about the agent, Valerie Plame. Even so, the judge, Thomas F. Hogan, of United States District Court in Washington, ordered her jailed for as long as 18 months, noting that she had contemplated writing such an article and had conducted interviews for it.
Judge Hogan suspended the sanction until a planned appeal is concluded, and he released Ms. Miller on her own recognizance.
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We thought the object of the investigation was to put government leakers, not journalists, in jail. Did something happen to change that while we were enjoying a hurricane, or two, or three …