MB reader Alan A. disagrees with the NRO article in which I argued against a national shield law:

Information, classified or not, like the existence of covert prisons, is something the public has a vested interest in knowing. A shield law is necessary because officials at all levels of government will bully/cajole/intimidate anyone attempting to find the truth; how much more severe the intimidation is when the information is unflattering. And the press deals almost exclusively with unflattering information.
In a local case, I was subpoenaed after a series of stories outlined how a local