Explain the significance of the 6th Circuit's 2015 ruling in Convertino v. United States Department of Justice.

What will be an ideal response?

The 6th Circuit appeared to give journalists another weapon (the Fifth Amendment) in their battle to protect source confidentiality-at least under certain circumstances. The Convertino case involved a journalist who had "leaked" written government reports. The 6th Circuit said that Convertino's suit against the Department of Justice "alleges facts that if proven could implicate [the journalist] in the commission of one or more crimes, including the allegation that federal officials illegally provided the journalist with two confidential documents." Even if it was unlikely that the journalist would be prosecuted if he revealed his sources, the 6th Circuit ruled that the fact that prosecution was at least possible meant that the journalist's invocation of the Fifth Amendment was valid.