Reporter From Time Is Held in Contempt in C.I.A. Leak Case

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Another Reporter Ordered To Jail In CIA Leak Case
Journalists Expected To File Joint Appeal

POSTED: 5:53 pm EDT October 13, 2004
UPDATED: 6:12 pm EDT October 13, 2004

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has ordered Time magazine White House correspondent Matthew Cooper to jail for 18 months for refusing to reveal sources to a grand jury that is probing the leak of an undercover Central Intelligence Agency officer's identity.

Judge Thomas Hogan then suspended the jail time for contempt of court pending an appeal.

Hogan's actions are nearly identical to those he took last week against New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

The journalists are expected to file a joint appeal on First Amendment grounds.

Judge Hogan said reporters must testify to grand juries unless they can show prosecutorial harassment or bad faith.

"No reporter in the United States should have to go to jail for simply doing their job," Cooper said in response.