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May we all one day have as much courage – in life and in death – as Daniel Ellsberg → Read More
The US justice department has acted appallingly in the Assange case. If he can be prosecuted, so can journalists everywhere → Read More
Florida’s rightwing governor and legislature want to gut one of the United States’ most important first amendment rulings → Read More
The Espionage Act is incredibly broad and spares literally no one. Readers of this newspaper may even have violated it → Read More
Wishing to see Trump called to account need not make us champion a 100-year-old statute used to target whistleblowers → Read More
Before Trump, Obama’s justice department did more to hurt press freedom than any administration since Nixon. Here’s how we stop history repeating → Read More
Before Trump, Obama’s justice department did more to hurt press freedom than any administration since Nixon. Here’s how we stop history repeating → Read More
First implemented in 1970, the Department of Justice’s news-media guidelines were meant to restrict the use of certain investigatory tools, like subpoenas and court orders, that might “unreasonably impair newsgathering activities.” The information sought by the DOJ had to be “essential” to an investigation, and the agency must have tried all other “reasonable alternative” to […] → Read More
The agency has been spying on protesters and journalists. Congress must force the DHS to massively reform – or disband → Read More
The amendment, which 10 Democrats voted in favor of, can still be fought against. And we must → Read More
The move to retaliate against Greenwald, who has reported critically on Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, is a threat to the press everywhere → Read More
With its latest leak indictment last week, the Department of Justice under Donald Trump is now on pace to break the previous record for prosecutions of journalists’ sources, just two and a half years into its administration. A new report, released for the first time today, shows just how dangerous such cases can be to […] → Read More
The case against the WikiLeaks founder is the justice department’s perfect vehicle to ultimately get what Trump wants → Read More
The California congressman’s lawsuit against a cow parody account is ridiculous, but it’s also dangerous.. California Rep. → Read More
Thousands of troops fighting and dying in yet another Middle Eastern country is not what’s best for America → Read More
It’s been one month since the Justice Department accidentally let slip that the Trump administration has secret charges filed against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The specific charges remain under seal, as a federal judge has delayed ruling on a motion by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to make them public. At least for […] → Read More
The Trump administration has now indicted at least five journalist sources in less than two years’ time—a pace that, if maintained through the end of Trump’s term, would obliterate the already-record number of leakers and whistleblowers prosecuted under eight years of the Obama administration. The latest case, which broke on Wednesday, shows the administration taking […] → Read More
The Justice Dept has kept these FISA court rules for targeting journalists secret for years. → Read More
The Justice Department now acknowledges that Russian hackers knew the U.S. was onto them months before the Winner leak. → Read More
In an aggressive escalation of its already disturbing crackdown on leaks, Trump’s Justice Department secretly obtained a year’s worth of phone calls and email records of Ali Watkins, a New York Times reporter who previously covered national security issues for Buzzfeed.As the New York Times reported on Thursday evening: | By Trevor Timm → Read More