Five reporters are being held in contempt of court for refusing to identify sources for stories about Wen Ho Lee, the nuclear scientist once suspected of spying at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. It is the second time in less than a month that a judge has ruled to hold journalists in contempt of court. On August 6, a US District Court judge sentenced Matthew Cooper, a reporter for Time magazine, to jail and ordered him to pay a daily fine of $1000 for every day he refused to testify in a grand jury probe involving the 2003 leak of a CIA operatives name. The penalties in that case were suspended after Time and Cooper filed an appeal. Traditionally, reporters are rarely threatened in court to reveal confidential sources. In response to the rulings, the New York Times issued a statement saying it would be impossible for journalists to do their jobs if they live in an environment where they are forced to name sources.