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The Supreme Court this week rejected an appeal by two journalists fighting an order to identify a source who told them the name of a CIA operative. The decision could mean jail time for the reporters—Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine. An unnamed official told Miller, Cooper, and several others that Valerie Plame, the wife of former diplomat Joseph Wilson, had worked undercover for the CIA. Syndicated columnist Robert Novak unmasked Plame in a 2003 column. Wilson accused the White House of naming his wife to punish him for publicly challenging President Bush’s justification for the Iraq war. The FBI is investigating the leak.
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