Obama's war on the press: Canadian perspective

[Raggedyann]

Washington's obsession with leakers has rendered reporters radioactive
Neil McDonald - CBC

Suddenly, Barack Obama is terribly concerned with freedom of the press.

The president is now championing a federal "shield law" to protect journalists from overzealous prosecutors and police.

The irony and hypocrisy of this is simply breathtaking. That it's happening in America, of all places, is just sad.

Freedom of the press is already explicitly guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.

If the American media need a further legal shield — and that's a matter of considerable disagreement amongst journalists themselves — they may need it most to shield them from the Obama administration.

Since taking office, the liberal, intellectual former professor of constitutional law who leads this country, and who spoke so eloquently during his first campaign about the need for government transparency, has conducted a relentless hunt for officials who leak secrets to reporters.

In at least one case, his prosecutors have gone after the reporters themselves.

This week, the U.S. Department of Justice acknowledged it had secretly seized the records of 20 phone lines at the Associated Press early last year.

Such a sweeping, clandestine intrusion is unprecedented in recent history, at least since the paranoid days of the Cold War.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013 ... obama.html

[Doka]

they may need it most to shield them from the Obama administration.

Ra, The Shield laws have been there for quite sometime, as the article states. Not only Constitutionally but also by State laws.

http://www.citelighter.com/legal/legal/ ... ers-rights


The above quote kind of says it all. It is all about "power" over the People.