While we've always had a certain number of federal prosecutors going after journalists, we're seeing a different type of phenomenon the federal employee who's been wronged. If you can somehow compel the journalists to be agents of discovery, it's going t
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The Supreme Court has said that criminal proceedings are public. In this country, we don't prosecute and lock up convicts and have no public track record of how we got there. That violates the defendants' rights not to mention the public's right to know what it's court system is doing.Lucy Dalglish
Journalists who cover national security and defense receive classified information all the time. It's virtually routine. If that were the standard for bringing an espionage case, we'd be locking up a lot of people in this town and there would be fewer sources of information.
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What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what's going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight of government if you have information.
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This is pretty much exactly where I thought we would be a year ago when all of this started to happen.
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People clearly think that their federal government is more secretive than state or local governments. And they are probably right. It has become more difficult to get information out of the federal government.
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you can also argue that the media did a lot to rehabilitate his reputation in recent years. A lot of people feel sorry for him.
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