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Journalists Ordered to Testify in CIA Leak Case

A U.S. appeals court rules that journalists Mathew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times must testify about their confidential sources on stories that revealed a CIA officer's identity. NPR's David Folkenflik reports.

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