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Supreme Court Won't Hear Reporters in CIA Case

By David Folkenflik
Published June 26, 2005 at 9:00 PM PDT
This story was published more than 19 years ago.

Supreme Court justices decline to hear the appeals of two prominent American journalists facing jail terms. Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper face jail time on contempt charges for refusing to name sources in an investigation of a leak of a CIA agent's name.

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