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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

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CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

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Reporters should keep their word to their sources.

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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

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The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power they just don't have.

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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

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I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

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I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

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At its core, ... a time had come when it was possible to resolve this. Judy had no desire to continue to endure life in the detention center.

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Judy was very reluctant to seem to be putting pressure on a source to release her to speak. And at the time, it would not have solved the other issue.

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Appearing on CNN's Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, and he did not agree at that time to something that he later did agree to, which was to limit the scope of the questions he would ask, so as to assure that the only source he would effectively be asking about was Mr. Libby.

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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

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The notes were redacted to omit everything but the notes taken concerning discussions with Libby about Plame.

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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

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If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

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Cooper called Libby directly, Abrams told NPR, and was referred to his lawyer for authorization. Abrams said he specifically remembered talking to Tate about the waiver. It was made very clear to me in discussions with Mr. Libby's counsel that he had personally approved and authorized Matthew Cooper fully to disclose everything about their conversations, ... I was satisfied that I had been given a direct and unequivocal assurance that Matt could testify and Libby had approved that.

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a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.

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The assertion by Libby's team that he had been giving her the green light all along brought a quick rebuttal from one of Miller's attorneys, Floyd Abrams. In a letter to Libby's lawyers to set the record straight, ... coerced.

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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

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There is a great reluctance on the part of journalists..to pick up the phone and sort of badger sources into relieving them of the promises they made, especially at the time that the promises are most important, when the source is in trouble. This is a very difficult and very delicate area.

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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

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In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her to testify unless she was going to exonerate him. That's Judy's interpretation, ... certainly asked me what Judy would say, but that's an entirely proper question.

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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

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A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing Why are you limiting speech about elections' But that's what we're doing, and that's what the legislation that passed yesterday does.

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It was made very clear to me in discussions with Mr. Libby's counsel that he had personally approved and authorized Matthew Cooper fully to disclose everything about their conversations. I was satisfied that I had been given a direct and unequivocal assurance that Matt could testify and Libby had approved that.

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