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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 850105" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/06/18/libya_10/" target="_blank">Obama rejects top lawyers' legal views on Libya - Salon</a></p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/18/libya" target="_blank">http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/18/libya</a></p><p>In <em>The New York Times</em> this morning, Scott Shane describes the still-escalating war on whistleblowers being waged by the Obama administration, including the press-freedom-threatening prosecution of WikiLeaks. As sysprog astutely observes in comments: "if the Administration and Congress are successful in squelching the publication of secrets, that may prevent future scoops like today's by Charlie Savage."</p><p></p><p>That, of course, is precisely the point of this war: to suffocate one of the only remaining avenues for learning what the government actually does, as opposed to what they want the public to believe they do. As Thomas Jefferson long ago observed: avenues of disclosure are "the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 850105, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.salon.com/2011/06/18/libya_10/']Obama rejects top lawyers' legal views on Libya - Salon[/URL] [URL='http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/18/libya'][/URL] In [I]The New York Times[/I] this morning, Scott Shane describes the still-escalating war on whistleblowers being waged by the Obama administration, including the press-freedom-threatening prosecution of WikiLeaks. As sysprog astutely observes in comments: "if the Administration and Congress are successful in squelching the publication of secrets, that may prevent future scoops like today's by Charlie Savage." That, of course, is precisely the point of this war: to suffocate one of the only remaining avenues for learning what the government actually does, as opposed to what they want the public to believe they do. As Thomas Jefferson long ago observed: avenues of disclosure are "the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." [/QUOTE]
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