Could the Libby Trial Open Door for Investigating Media Complicity in Iraq Invasion?

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Reading this AP Article about how 10 reporters will have to testify in the Libby trial (both for prosecution and defense) it make me wonder if Fitz's trial couldn't bring investigations into what we here on DU already know is the complicity between the media (both print and TV) by the Bush Administration to push for War, and the over a decade push of Republican and RW Think Tank Propaganda into the the public mind.

Here's a snip from the article that got me wondering if the "Media on Trial" might not be an important "sideshow" to the Libby Trial.

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Journalists may testify in CIA leak case

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer Mon Jan 1, 4:04 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Some journalists who made careers out of questioning government officials and bearing witness to history may soon find themselves answering questions from prosecutors as key witnesses in the
CIA leak case.

Ten or more reporters from some of the most prominent news organizations could be called to testify in the perjury and obstruction case of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. It's rare enough for reporters to become witnesses. But the Libby case is even more unusual because journalists will be dueling witnesses — some called by the defense team, some by prosecutors.

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Jurors likely won't hear much about the leak itself because the original source, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, has already confirmed his role and Libby is not charged with the leak. But the trial is certain to renew questions about whether the administration used reporters to drum up support for the war.

Roy Peter Clark, a scholar at the Poynter Institute, a school and resource center for working journalists, said he worries about the fallout from the trial. If it's perceived that reporters grant anonymity to officials engaged in political gamesmanship, prosecutors might be more likely to subpoena them in cases where anonymity was granted in serious issues of public importance.

"This case, it's magnified by the fact that it's in Washington and the status of the players," Clark said. "It's a bizarre and I'd say dangerous case."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070101/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_reporters