1.0 link 41293 <![CDATA[BALCO Reporters Properly Out of Jeopardy, But Justice Department Has Fought the Wrong War]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-kaus/balco-reporters-properly-_b_41293.html Sacramento attorney Troy Ellerman has agreed to plead guilty to leaking the BALCO grand jury transcript to San Francisco Chronicle writers Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada. His plea bargain allows a sentence of up to two years in prison.

The Justice Department trumpeted this triumph in a press release and said that if the judge accepts the plea bargain, it will cease its attempt to jail Williams and Fainaru-Wada for not revealing their sources.

The Justice Department's pursuit of...

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