PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

N E W S   W A R  -  P A R T   O N E

ONE
Prologue: The Plame Affair

It is the most significant clash between the press and federal government in decades, and its roots lie in the administration's march to war.
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TWO
The Reporting on Iraq's WMD

Many in the media got it wrong, including Judith Miller, a New York Times lead reporter on WMD. However, some journalists got it right.
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THREE
Hardball Politics

Joe Wilson emerges as a new critic of the WMD argument. The tangled Plame case begins, soon becomes a media spectacle. A special counsel takes over.
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FOUR
Going After Reporters' Confidential Sources

The Plame affair pulls back the curtain on these relationships. And in the government's probe journalists take different stands on revealing sources.
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FIVE
The Supreme Court's Ruling

The 1972 'Branzburg' case is the Court's first and only ruling on confidential sources. Its landmark decision was 5-4 against the reporters.
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SIX
Then and Now

For 30 years, reporters' right to shield sources was backed by state laws, legal opinion and the public. That's no longer the case today.
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SEVEN
To Cooperate Or Not

Time magazine gives the special counsel Cooper's notes. But for New York Times' Judith Miller, the decision is hers not the paper's. She refuses.
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EIGHT
Epilogue: "Plamegate"

The final twists and turns in the Miller story, the special prosecutor's probe, and the lasting effect of it all on the institution of the press.
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