Miller Time
July 08, 2005
In the end, the two reporters who refused to divulge their sources met very different fates. The New York Times' Judy Miller stuck to her guns, and was thrown in jail. After receiving what he described as last-minute permission from his source, Time's Matt Cooper spilled the beans. Cooper said the entire ordeal could have been prevented by a federal law protecting journalists from having to testify. Is he right? University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone discusses the limits of "shield laws" with Brooke
