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"US...are doing to journalists" The US government, still maintains a pretty strong protection of journalists. They will go after the leakers themselves, but r
by jasallen 13y ago
"US...are doing to journalists"
The US government, still maintains a pretty strong protection of journalists. They will go after the leakers themselves, but rarely even attempt to make a journalist reveal a source, let alone prosecute the journalist directly for revealing secret information.
In fact, I say still, but this tendency has actually grown stronger over the last 50 years. It has, in my not-very-researched-opinion, grown stronger due to public pressures and effective civil disobedience. So, that heartens me. All governments screw-up, but some are screwed-up, I still don't think the US is one of the screwed-up - relative to the rest of the world and history - a LOT I wish they would do better.
- zero_intp 13y agoRecent DOJ opinion (that a court gave warrant for) that an AP author was party to a crime while (/because of) trying to avoid surveillance.
- pmiller2 13y agoI'm not familiar with this opinion. Do you have a source?
- notaddicted 13y agoI think parent^ poster was referring to this: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/700577-051413-letter-to-g-pruitt.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/700577-051413-letter... A reporter was being investigated for having access to classified information, and the toll records (what number called or was called, and for how long the call lasted) were subpoenaed. [Via http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/14/4331108/attorney-general-defends-surveillance-of-ap-reporter-phone-calls http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/14/4331108/attorney-general-d... ]
- lisper 13y agohttp://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/06/11/watch_a_reporter_get_handcuffed_while_covering_a_protest_in_north_carolina.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/06/11/watch_a_reporte...