<blockquote>'If you add up the pulling of news organization phone records (The Associated Press), the tracking of individual reporters (Fox News), and the effort by the current administration to go after sources (seven instances and counting in which a government official has been criminally charged with leaking classified information to the news media), suggesting that there is a war on the press is less hyperbole than simple math.
For the time being, it is us (the press) versus them (the feds), which is part of the reason David Gregory ended up taking a lot of incoming fire for suggesting on NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Glenn Greenwald may have committed crimes, not journalism, when he published leaks by Mr. Snowden.
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The press is frequently accused of giving itself a pass, but the present moment would seem like a good time for a bit of solidarity. The current administration’s desire for control of information is not a new phenomenon, but at this juncture, there is a clear need for a countervailing force in favor of openness.'
- David Carr,
(The New York Times), The Other Snowden Drama: Impugning the Messenger June 24, 2013</blockquote>
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'When the free free press .. becomes equivalent to an "enemy of the United States" something very, very bad is happening.''..The NSA, FBI and CIA have, with the new digital technology .. United Stasi of America.' - Daniel Ellsberg Edward</blockquote>