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Democracy Now!: Imprisoned Journalist Josh Wolf Released After Record 225 Days in Jail (4/4/07) by Juan Gonzalez & Amy Goodman
The independent journalist describes how his principled stance and U.S. attorneys´ bullying combined to make him the "longest-jailed journalist for protecting a source in U.S. history" before "prosecutors agreed to drop their effort to make him testify before a grand jury and identify protesters shown on his video." As part of an "agreement that had been on the table since November," Wolf made available his uncut footagethat had no... evidentiary value and was basically just my outtakes for editing purposes.... So there was no real reason not to publish it, other than the fact that the government had subpoenaed it. So once we had lost those appeals, we inquired with the U.S. attorney as to whether or not there would be some possible thing where we could give up the footage and I could walk out. And the U.S. attorney was like, “No, we need the full cooperation of the subpoena, all demands.” And so I sat here until the judge ordered into mediation.
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