Byline: Washington Post
A District of Columbia Superior Court judge has ordered the spouse of a Washington Post reporter to testify in a civil lawsuit and warned journalists that they jeopardize the confidentiality of sources by talking about them with friends.
Judge Richard A. Levie said he could not accept the Post's contention that the First Amendment, which provides some protections to reporters and their confidential sources, should also extend to "a spouse or close companion, who shares an intimate or confidential relationship with a reporter."
In his ruling Tuesday, Levie asserted that "a reporter who compromises in any way the …
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