Waitaminute! I Thought Journalists Were Above the Law

Man, is this the worst week for the MSM in a long time or what?

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling against two reporters who could go to jail for refusing to divulge their sources about the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with prosecutors in their attempt to compel Time magazine's Matthew Cooper and The New York Times' Judith Miller to testify before a federal grand jury about their confidential sources.

"We agree with the District Court that there is no First Amendment privilege protecting the information sought," Judge David B. Sentelle said in the ruling, which was unanimous.

Every American citizen is expected to respond to a subpoena and to testify within the constraints of the Fifth Amendment. I'd personally welcome seeing a couple of these folks spend some time reporting on the quality of prison food, and I have no problem with Bob Novak being one of them if he refuses to testify as well.