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       Obama says reporters shouldn't be harassed
   DIR By: trollslayer
       Date: August 18, 2014, 9:44 pm
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       Remember the tapping of the AP?  The harassment of James Rosen
       of Fox?  But police shouldn't be harassing reporters.  Perhaps
       the most transparent administration should be taking it's own
       advice
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       > Attorney General Eric Holder wants to force Risen to testify
       and reveal the identity of his confidential source on a story he
       had in his 2006 book concerning a bungled C.I.A. operation
       during the Clinton administration in which agents might have
       inadvertently helped Iran develop its nuclear weapon program.
       The tale made the C.I.A. look silly, which may have been more of
       a sore point than a threat to national security.
       > Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main
       story
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       > But Bush officials, no doubt still smarting from Risen’s
       revelation of their illegal wiretapping, zeroed in on a
       disillusioned former C.I.A. agent named Jeffrey Sterling as the
       source of the Iran story.
       >
       > The subpoena forcing Risen’s testimony expired in 2009, and to
       the surprise of just about everybody, the constitutional law
       professor’s administration renewed it — kicking off its strange
       and awful aggression against reporters and whistle-blowers.
       > Holder said in May that “no reporter who is doing his job is
       going to go to jail,” trying to show some leg and signal that
       his intention is benign, merely to put pressure on Sterling so
       that he will plead guilty before his trial.
       >
       > The president and the attorney general both spoke nobly about
       the First Amendment after two reporters were arrested in
       Ferguson, Mo., while covering the racial protests in the wake of
       Michael Brown’s death.
       >
       > Obama said that “here, in the United States of America, police
       should not be bullying or arresting journalists who are just
       trying to do their jobs and report to the American people on
       what they see on the ground.”
       >
       > Holder seconded the sentiment, saying that “journalists must
       not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to
       be told.”
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