Friday, July 19, 2013

What Was the Question?

The question was: In light of the NSA revelations, will the Obama administration renew the FISA court authorization to collect all our telephone data today? And of course, you know what their answer is. Yes. Why wouldn't we?  All the power is ours.

And furthermore, ask not for whom the bell tolls.
In a major decision about press freedoms, a divided federal appeals court on Friday ruled that James Risen, an author and a reporter for The New York Times, must testify in the criminal trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency official charged with providing him with classified information.

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[The court] ruled that the First Amendment provides no protection to reporters who receive unauthorized leaks from being forced to testify against the people suspected of leaking to them.

  NYT
Another black day for journalism in America, for democracy, and for civil liberties.

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