Lucy Dalglish
Lucy Dalglish
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What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what's going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight of government if you have information.
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When you have more and more information being classified, and more and more secrets being kept, the only way reporters can get information is when internal whistleblowers provide it. And that drives this administration crazy.
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The government appears to be going very aggressively after these types of leak cases, ... and when reporters are involved, I'm just gritting my teeth.
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I'd be very loath to be critical of what Judith did,
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I think this has an absolute chilling effect.
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Journalists who cover national security and defense receive classified information all the time. It's virtually routine. If that were the standard for bringing an espionage case, we'd be locking up a lot of people in this town and there would be fewer sources of information.
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There is no question that there are more restrictions coming down. There is rampant secrecy in both federal and state courtrooms.
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We're delighted that the Knight Foundation has recognized the valuable contributions the Reporters Committee has made to the public's right to know. Reporters all over the country will benefit from the continuation and expansion of the programs this grant will support.
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you can also argue that the media did a lot to rehabilitate his reputation in recent years. A lot of people feel sorry for him.
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While weve always had a certain number of federal prosecutors going after journalists, were seeing a different type of phenomenon the federal employee whos been wronged. If you can somehow compel the journalists to be agents of discovery, its going to have a chilling effect, ... This is very troubling.
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The Supreme Court has said that criminal proceedings are public. In this country, we don't prosecute and lock up convicts and have no public track record of how we got there. That violates the defendants' rights not to mention the public's right to know what it's court system is doing.
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It's really ridiculous. I'm just waiting for the first search of a newsroom to come down and for someone to say, 'You can't report we just searched you.
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That's exactly where we're headed. We're going to see a situation where to report to the public what's going on is ultimately going to lead to leaks investigations. . . . That's enormously troublesome.
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I'm not aware of any previous government attempt to retrieve such material. Librarians and historians are having a fit, and I can't imagine a bigger chill to journalists.