The government has the legal authority to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday. . . . He was referring to the 1917 Espionage Act, which made it a crime for an unauthorized person to receive national defense information and to transmit it to others. (San Francisco Chronicle, Monday)
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter.
–Thomas Jefferson
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