futuristic espionage witch hunts

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/business/media/white-house-uses-espionage-act-to-pursue-leak-cases-media-equation.html?_r=1&src=tp

Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration’s press secretary, Jay Carney, opened on a somber note, citing the deaths of Marie Colvin and Anthony Shadid, two reporters who had died “in order to bring truth” while reporting in Syria.

Jake Tapper, the White House correspondent for ABC News, pointed out that the administration had lauded brave reporting in distant lands more than once and then asked, “How does that square with the fact that this administration has been so aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the United States by using the Espionage Act to take whistle-blowers to court?”

He then suggested that the administration seemed to believe that “the truth should come out abroad; it shouldn’t come out here.”

Fair point. The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance “whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers,” has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers.

Is the Obama administration abusing the Espionage Act?

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/02/27/is_the_obama_administration_abusing_the_espionage_act

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/a-high-tech-war-on-leaks.html


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/ex-cia-officer-john-kiriakou-accused-in-leak.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/us/10leak.html


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/us/16leak.html

plus:
watched the pennsylvania tasering of a teen girl
read about london smog shirking the EU standards as too pricey
more phone hacking nonsense
chemical weapons in the eyes of the youth
stratfor 5 months advance knowledge of drone attacks