Back to reporters and source confidentiality

I absolutely refuse to let this issue die. It's hugely, hugely important to a free and functioning democracy. Check out Chris Dodd's piece in today's Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30337-2004Dec27.html

When someone like Dodd starts to speak up, it makes me a little more hopeful that federal legislation might come along to give us a better guarantee regarding the protection of sources.

I don't know if this is a bi-partisan, non-partisan or completely partisan issue. My hope, of course, is that it is non-partisan. Sure feels like it should be a no-brainer to me. I'm a little worried, though, since it was the Valerie Plame leak perpetrated by the Bush Administration that seriously launched this whole thing, and because this Administration, although certainly not necessarily the Republican Party as a whole, that seems to favor such extreme secrecy. If Republicans in Congress don't see this as important or necessary, the damage will be done before we have a Congress that will take action on it. I hope and pray that isn't the case.