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Name Sources, Judge Orders Five Reporters
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
ASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- A federal judge has ordered five reporters, including two from The New York Times, to disclose the confidential sources they used in preparing articles about Dr. Wen Ho Lee, the former scientist at the nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M.
The judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson of Federal District Court here, ordered the reporters on Friday to disclose their sources' names and provide Dr. Lee's lawyers with notes and other materials compiled in their newsgathering.
Judge Jackson ruled that First Amendment protections that shield journalists from government interference were outweighed in this specific case by the need of Dr. Lee's lawyers to provide evidence of government leaks in their suit against the government.
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