A pall of fear hangs over American journalists, one that threatens to smother
the feeble flame of investigative reporting and insulate government officials
against any sort of accountability. The Obama regime is taking a hard line against
"leakers," and their penchant for secrecy out-does even Richard Nixon at his most paranoid. This administration, which came to power on a pledge of
greater "transparency," has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the
terms of the draconian Espionage Act of 1917 than all other Presidents combined.
And it doesn’t stop there.
The Department of Justice is currently going after New York Times reporter
James Risen for allegedly receiving classified information from former CIA employee
Jeffrey Sterling. Risen, who is refusing to testify in the case – citing his
right to keep his sources confidential – is reportedly taking his appeal to
the Supreme Court.
Obama’s henchmen have not been shy about targeting the administration’s perceived
enemies in the Fourth Estate: they went after a Fox News reporter – James Rosen,
Fox’s White House correspondent – obtaining his phone records in their investigation
of a rather insubstantial "leak." They also seized months of phone
records from an entire battery of Associated Press reporters – just as if the
United States were some banana republic somewhere.
Which is precisely what we are becoming.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/10/24/hands-off-glenn-greenwald/
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