The most interesting piece of news I have read concerning the Valerie Plame case concerns the protected status of media sources. Evidently there is none! What is more interesting, according the historical Court rulings, there has never been such protection. Newspapers, TV news, and print media organizations have argued for years that they can protect their sources via the First Amendments “free speech” clause. However, this has simply been a matter of wishful thinking. The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to ever rule in favor of the protected status of media sources.
This is totally counter to what I was taught in school. I had always believed that media sources could not be forcible taken from reporters except in the event of national security.