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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1140727" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/20/obama-doj-james-rosen-criminality" target="_blank"><strong>Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes | Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration's attacks on press freedoms emerges - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment's guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret. This newfound theory of the Obama DOJ - that a journalist can be guilty of crimes for "soliciting" the disclosure of classified information - is a means for circumventing those safeguards and criminalizing the act of investigative journalism itself. These latest revelations show that this is not just a theory but one put into practice, as the Obama DOJ submitted court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1140727, member: 1"] [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/20/obama-doj-james-rosen-criminality"][B]Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes | Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration's attacks on press freedoms emerges - The Guardian[/B][/URL] Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment's guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret. This newfound theory of the Obama DOJ - that a journalist can be guilty of crimes for "soliciting" the disclosure of classified information - is a means for circumventing those safeguards and criminalizing the act of investigative journalism itself. These latest revelations show that this is not just a theory but one put into practice, as the Obama DOJ submitted court documents accusing a journalist of committing crimes by doing this. [/QUOTE]
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