1.   Mr Hibberd refused, citing state laws that allow a journalist to protect a source.

2.   And they are not talking, in order to protect their sources from reprisals.

3.   As played by Pacino, Bergman is forceful but unglamorous, a typically aggressive muckraker who prides himself on getting there first and protecting his sources.

4.   Ashcroft said he was constrained in part by the need to protect confidential sources.

5.   But it could also be used to obfuscate, protecting a source who is intimately involved.

6.   But the document said that because of the need to protect intelligence sources, it could not detail the evidence for its conclusions.

7.   Government lawyers to whom I spoke defended that one-sided procedure as necessary to protect secret sources inside terrorist groups.

8.   However, there are times when a newspaper needs to protect a source.

9.   In addition to protecting sources, Wildes said the case raises other important issues as well.

10.   In fact, principled journalists do not lie to protect sources.