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...normally monitored by prison authorities, unless officials know the talks specifically involve a prisoner's attorneys. The question was whether the tapings violated the no-eavesdropping rule. Noriega's lawyers argued that the Sixth Amendment protection of Noriega's privileged communication with counsel had in fact been violated. Meanwhile, CNN claimed that its First Amendment freedoms from prior restraint had been abridged...
...enforcement officials were clearly disturbed about CNN's possession of the tapes and about how the network got them in the first place. The Panamanian government has claimed to have Noriega recordings that it received from the U.S. State Department; speculation was that the tapes came into reporter Fernandez's hands from Panamanian sources...
Whatever the provenance of the recordings, their squelching by Judge Hoeveler opened a second front in the court battle. A number of publishers, including the Time Inc. Magazine Co., TIME's parent organization, and the New York Times Co., filed an amicus brief in support of CNN's petition to be freed from the restraining order. A similar brief was filed by several major television networks. Says Jane Kirtley, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "News organizations are in the business of exposing governmental misconduct, and that's what CNN has done...
...force us to compromise security or endanger the case against Noriega. The primary goal was always to get him out of power. I don't see what we get out of getting him convicted." Such talk may fuel the rumor among Panamanians that the tapes were intentionally passed to CNN to torpedo the trial and get the government off the hook. State has formally denied the allegation...
...interview with CNN last week, the President conceded that there is "a ticking of the clock" toward war, in part because public support for his policies is dropping. That, in turn, owes to his failure to convincingly state the case for his strategy. The gravest risk is that Bush may feel compelled to adopt a more aggressive stance before the consensus deteriorates further. The President would be well advised to clarify his goals when he sits down to dinner with the troops. There will be plenty of Americans back home intently listening...