Go Molly

http://progressive.org/?q=mag_ivins0905

Look, a reporter comes armed with a notebook and a pencil. We do not carry guns; we do not even carry heavy flashlights. We cannot arrest people. We do not have power of subpoena. We cannot force people to talk by holding them as material witnesses; we cannot break into their homes or read their computers, with or without a quickie court hearing. We are not the law. All we can do is ask people to trust us.

We have no more right to withhold information about a serious crime than does a lawyer, a doctor, a psychiatrist, a counselor. If someone tells us they have done or are about to do a serious crime, we are utterly obliged to report it, even in the thirty-one states where we have limited legal privileges of confidentiality.