Reply #10: Combine this with the New UK Libel Ruling...

[Senator]

Law lords give media shield against libel in landmark ruling

If the journalists did behave fairly and responsibly and the information was of public importance, the fact that it contained relevant but defamatory allegations against prominent people would not permit them to win libel damages.

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"The ruling also frees investigative journalists, authors and broadcasters to publish and defend stories without danger to their sources."

...and we may be seeing the real reason rabid urgency of forcing the War Criminals Protection Act through congress (futile as it may be).

Remember, unlike our deluded DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy, the rest of the world still realizes that any act taken to aide or abet war criminals implicates oneself in the war crimes.

Jack Straw may now be free to save himself from a trip to the Hague.

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