Reply #9: "What we have here is a case of serious journalistic overrreaching."

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4. What we have here is a case of serious journalistic overrreaching. Miller and Cooper begin with a sound principle and then distort it all out of proportion. Of course, they were entitled to pursue their legal arguments to the highest court in the land. But having done so, and lost, they now have a responsibility to comply with the rule of law – the very same rule of law that provides robust protection to the freedom of the press. There is no legitimate basis for their arrogant claim that they are “above the law.” And there is no legitimate basis for their claim that their obstruction of justice is “civil disobedience.” It may be moral to refuse to obey the law when the legal system itself is corrupt or oppressive or unjust, but there is no reason whatever to believe that is the case here. Here, they simply lost.

5. It is worth noting that the crime under investigation in this dispute is no small matter. The question is whether high Bush administration officials grossly abused their official power to jeopardize the national security for partisan political purposes. As newspapers like the New York Times observed at the time Robert Novak first broke this story, this is a matter of potential Watergate-level consequence. At that time, the New York Times rightly demanded an aggressive investigation of the leaks, and that’s exactly what it got.

From Miscast Martyrs by Geoffrey R. Stone

July 4 2005

More at the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/geoffrey-r-stone/miscast-martyrs_3626.html

Reasonable assessment.

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