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New York (pte063/30.06.2005/15:58) - Time magazine has agreed to hand over Mathew Cooper's notes for the investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name.
The case, which involves Cooper, a Time magazine http://www.time.com journalist, and Judith Miller of the New York Times, has been running since October 2004.
The two journalists said that they'd rather go to jail than testify in court about the identity leak.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan has threatened to jail Cooper Miller for contempt for refusing to disclose their sources.
Time said in a statement that it believes ''the Supreme Court has limited press freedom in ways that will have a chilling effect on our work and that may damage the free flow of information that is so necessary in a democratic society.''
The two defendants refused to disclose their sources, which involves CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, publicly disputed the president's rationale for invading Iraq.
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