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From JOHN ROYAL: Excuse me, but I've got a question, and not being a reporter, I'm hoping that someone out there can answer this. Fox News today released the transcript of an interview that it conducted with Richard Clarke in 2002 when he was still with the Bush White House. The interview was conducted on background.
Well, Fox remembers the interview and asks the White House for permission to identify Clarke's name, which the White House gave. Here's my question: I thought that the privilege was between the reporter and the person interviewed, i.e., Clark, and not the person's employer? If that's so, did the White House and Fox break some ethical rules? If it's not so, doesn't this mean that Robert Novak or one of the other Valerie Plame reporters contacted by the White House can get permission from the White House to release the name instead of having to get the permission from the actual person?
Indeed.