N.Y. Times Reporter Jailed

Judith Miller told the judge that if U.S. troops could risk death in their fight for freedom in Iraq, "surely, I can face prison to defend a free press."

"I have chronicled the dark side of the world, where the law is an arbitrary foil that serves the powerful," she said in court, Washington Post staff writer Carol Leonnig reported. "I also know that the freest and fairest societies are . . . those with a free press . . . publishing information the government does not want to reveal," Miller said.

Uh, Yeah Judy. the only problem is you weren't exactly putting the government's feet to the fire were you? You were taking info the White House wanted publicized in order to take revenge on someone that had given the government trouble. In this case, my dear, you're no champion of rights. You're the president's rube...and i'm not even sure you know it.