29. Reporters Protected

The U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 398 to 21, passed legislation that would protect reporters from being jailed for failing to reveal sources.

The margin of vote was more than the two-thirds majority to override a veto by the President.

This bill was in response to threats to jail journalists for failing to co-operate with prosecutors in several high profile cases.

Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller spent 85 days in jail than divulge conversations she had with Lewis Libby, V.P. Dick Cheney's then chief of staff in a high profile case.

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