Beware good intentions
Re “Journalist Jailed for Not Revealing Source to Court,” July 7
U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan’s misguided decision to jail New York Times journalist Judith Miller after she refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the disclosure of a covert CIA operative’s identity reminds me of a quote by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: “Experience should teach us to be most on guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment of men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”
Suzanne E. Evans
Newport Beach
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