Boehner v. McDermott

McDermott is now on the hook for $700,000.

Here's more.

Lawyers for 18 news organizations - including major television networks, The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post - filed a brief backing McDermott last year. They said a ruling against him could hurt the media's ability to gather information on important public issues.

Putting terrorists under stress and waterboarding is torture, according to the Media Lords, but illegally taping private phone calls and printing them to embarrass your political opponents is an importatn media right and "hurts the media's ability to gather information on important public issues."

Yeah, sure.