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Supreme Court Won't Hear Reporters in CIA Case

By David Folkenflik
Published June 27, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

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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