Everything The Government Did To WikiLeaks Is Now Being Done To Mainstream US Reporters

At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we believe it’s vital to defend WikiLeaks’ right to gather and publish classified information in the public interest, just as it’s vital to protect the rights of Associated Press and Fox News to do the same. Under the law, the AP, Fox News, and WikiLeaks are no different (a fact that even the government argues). If one falls, the others will not be far behind.

Despite this fact, many journalists and mainstream media organizations purposefully stayed silent when WikiLeaks first came under attack by the Justice Department in early 2011.  That disappointing silence left open the possibility that the Justice Department could use those same tactics against others in the future.

And unfortunately now it’s clear: virtually every move made by the Justice Department against WikiLeaks has now also been deployed on mainstream US journalists.

Thats life in the police state.  Mind you this is happening under Obama’s watch, not Bush, not the Bush before him.  O B A M A.  He is not the saint everyone thought he was or still is, he is a puppet just like the ones before him. -Mort