Effete Thugs Losing Their Immunity

Court OK's Look at Times' Phone Records
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press Writer

Federal prosecutors investigating a leak about a terrorism funding probe can see the phone records of two New York Times reporters, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned on a 2-1 vote a lower court's ruling that the records were off limits unless prosecutors could show they had exhausted all other means of finding out who spoke to the newspaper.

Here's the money quote, from the dissenting opinion of bleeding heart Judge Robert D. Sack:

"Reporters might find themselves, as a matter of practical necessity, contacting sources the way I understand drug dealers reach theirs _ by use of clandestine cell phones and meetings in darkened doorways."

Sack was close. His quote should have read,

"Reporters might find themselves, as a matter of practical necessity, contacting sources the way I understand spies reach theirs _ by use of clandestine cell phones and meetings in darkened doorways."