If this bill passes the Senate it just might do that.
“A bill that for the first time would give journalists limited protection from efforts to force them to reveal their sources in the federal courts will be taken up by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and its sponsors said its prospects are good.
“It’s balanced, [...]

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This is a bill that is worthy of a veto:
“WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is threatening to veto a Senate intelligence bill that’s laced with provisions that would force the White House and spy agencies to be more responsive to Congress.
In a policy statement released Thursday, Bush’s advisers said the bill fails to provide enough [...]

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Bad news for the Traitor Times:
“The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe.
The one-sentence order came in a First Amendment battle that involves stories written in 2001 by Times reporters [...]

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Michelle Malkin notes that the NY Times has petitioned the Supreme Court to shield their reporters against the feds looking at the phone records of Judith Miller and Philip Shenon.
From the Times:
“The New York Times asked the Supreme Court yesterday to bar a federal prosecutor from reviewing the phone records of two of its reporters. [...]

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Apparently there has been a reversal of the NY Times position on printing government secrets in a time of war. Via Michelle Malkin:
“Un. Freaking. Believable. The NYTimes ombudsman, Byron Calame, buried a bombshell mea culpa in his column today–reversing his prior defense of the Times’ blabbermouth report on a once-secret terrorist banking data surveillance [...]

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Has Rep. Jane Harmen, a member of the House Intelligence Committee been divulging information to the MSM?
Yesterday we learned that an unnamed democratic staffer had been suspended by House Intel Committee Chairman, Rep. Pete Hoekstra for possibly leaking a National Intelligence Estimate to the Ny Times.
Of course the first to complain was in fact Jane [...]

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Via the LA Times:
“The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has suspended a Democratic staff member pending an investigation into whether he leaked a high-level intelligence assessment to the news media.
The committee’s top Democrat said the suspension was “without basis.
The staff member, who was not identified, was suspended this week by Chairman Peter Hoekstra, [...]

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Breaking from the Foley game:
Remember this?
Via email:
Hey Mac.
“At this point, this is good information that is something HUGH is cooking in the “bunker” in Alexandria, where a Federal Grand Jury has been conducting an investigation of possible violations of federal criminal laws involving unauthorized disclosure of classified information”. If you noticed there have been [...]

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As I said here, this “leak” of the NIE of April 2006 wasn’t anything more than a designed hit to stem the rise (didn’t work) of President Bush’s popularity, and have the maximum fire for effect during election season.
Clarice Feldman makes note of this in her article in American Thinker.
“As in the Plame case, selective [...]

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What can you say, Brian (I see DOJ people everywhere!) Ross, and his “investigative team”, give a gift wrap to Al Qaeda:
“ABC News has obtained videotapes of dramatic U.S. government field tests of new methods to thwart terrorist attacks against U.S. embassies abroad.
In the videotape tests, government scientists stage real terror attacks — slamming trucks [...]

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