Reply #7: Motion to Compel denied.

[Supersedeas]

The damage, in so much as the Government can prove any, has been done.

The reporters have submitted affidavits that they were not 'tipped' off.

Granting the motion is both overbroad and an infringment upon the journalist privilege and for what purpose, to 'reprimand' an overzealous investigator who wanted to make sure the bust was publicized.

The investigating department can take care of this internally.

The precedent set by this discovery fishing expedition will cause much more damage than to First Amendment protections and thus outweighs the overzealous interests asserted by the Government.

On a completely separate tangent, I find it more than coincidental that these journalistic privilege cases are being 'publically' litigated simultaneously.

Tinfoil hat time? Probably not...but still worth noting.