Reply #9: foolish

[JackRiddler]

I suppose I could be full of schadenfreude (joy in the misfortune of others), since Miller deserves to be in jail (or, at the very least, drummed out of her profession and regarded as a pariah) for other reasons: for knowingly perpetrating the WMD lie used to justify the illegal and ultimately genocidal invasion of Iraq.

But that's not how I feel. Miller is in prison for the wrong reasons. You may say she's trying to protect criminals, but the principle remains: she is a journalist trying to protect anonymous sources.

A precedent is being established that the U.S. can jail a journalist for not revealing sources.

Let's talk again in a year about this. When the next journalist is jailed, I guarantee you it will be a liberal or leftist and everyone here will be in an uproar at this attack on freedom of the press. Which the Miller precedent is making possible.