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Should the dispute over the tapes let Noriega off the hook, the government will have to shoulder the blame. The public will have to bear the burden of unanswered questions that a fair trial may have helped to answer. It was not CNN but federal officials who ordered the recording of the calls. They, and not the First Amendment nor the American public, should bear the consequences of that decision...
HOEVELER now has a chance to redeem himself and, to some extent, the justice system. CNN has turned the tapes over to him and he will decide later this week on whether to continue...
...staff fears that this decision will set a precedent of judicial restraint of American media. If CNN is prevented from airing tapes on the grounds that Noriega's right to a fair trial has been abridged, as this opinion reasons, then it is foreseeable that federal marshalls will march into America's newsrooms and pull stories with only the weakest of possibilities that it could damage right to a fair trial...
Even if the tapes were recorded illegally, the result of government screw-up, how did CNN get its hands on them? If the tapes were obtained illegally then the courts are required to protect the defendant's rights. Otherwise, if the right to free speech supercedes all other, the press would be virtually authorized to use whatever means necessary to get a story--regardless of the legality...
...case of the CNN tapes of conversations between Manuel Noriega and his lawyers, we feel that the Supreme Court was justified in its decision...