San Francisco federal court has become ground zero in the Bush Administration's assault on the press. Although the putative War on Terror has been the excuse for many of the civil liberty curtailments that the federal government has accomplished, no such excuse is possible in two cases about to be decided in the City by the Bay.
Most prominently, in August S.F. Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams face a hearing over whether they should be forced to reveal the...
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