“These two changes are profoundly altering the role of confidential sources.”
Byron Calame
“I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role.”
Gregory Allen
“I am not prepared to comment because it is a confidential matter. Any league officials who are sources for this ought to be fired. Ricky Williams has been in the best behavioral mode I have ever seen him in. I think it's important that no one rushes to judgment or jumps the gun on any reactions.”
Leigh Steinberg
“I am free only because my source, my one confidential source, wrote me a personal letter and called me in jail to let me know that he really, really wanted me to testify,”
Judith Miller
“I am prepared to answer questions identifying the source who released me from my pledge of confidentiality.”
Walter Pincus
“NASA states, in these documents, that they [also] have 'confidential sources' in Britain and Belgium monitoring Global Network activities.”
Kevin Aplin
“We seek information about confidential sources from reporters only when it really, really matters. What is broken about the way we are handling subpoenas to the media? ... I don't see anything in our work that justifies discarding 33 years of careful practice that has served the nation well.”
Chuck Rosenberg