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To: one_less who wrote (1830)	9/26/2006 6:09:26 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

""There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors," said New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a statement responding to questions from The Washington Post. "I don't know how far action will follow rhetoric, but some days it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad."" To whatever degree this characterization is true it is alarming. Democracy requires that the populace be informed truthfully about the workings of the government. The press is not meant to be a lap dog. They should have no fear of publishing the truth. And there are already laws to punish those who publish state secrets. This atmosphere of intimidation is wrong IMO.

To: one_less who wrote (1830)	9/26/2006 6:10:37 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

You're right. Trying to get a reporter to reveal his source has double negative consequences -- first, it's an exercise in frustration, and second, it makes a hero out of a two-bit piddly reporter. The problem is, the leaker won't fess up, and it's really hard to give lie detector tests to everyone in an agency that might know the leaked info. If a few leakers could be found and prosecuted, very publically, it MIGHT slow down some of the leaks. But NOT prosecuting an alleged leaker just encourages others to do the same.