workin for the clampdown

[Guest guest]

* Nat Hentoff on the Government Crackdown on Information From Whistleblowers

to Journalists *

 

Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff discusses the government's attempt to

clamp down on the ability of the public to transmit or receive information

the government deems secret. Hentoff says the prosecution of two former

officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is the " first in

which the federal government is charging violations of the Espionage Act by

American citizens who are not government officials for being involved in,

until now, what have been regarded as first amendment protected activities. "

 

 

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/26/1438237

 

 

* FBI Seeks to Seize Control of Files of Deceased Investigative Journalist

Jack Anderson *

 

FBI agents last month sought to sift through the files of the late

muckracking journalist Jack Anderson to take back those it deemed classified

over concern they could hurt U.S. interests. We speak Jack Anderson's son,

Kevin, as well as George Washington University journalism professor, Mark

Feldstein.

 

 

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/26/1438241

 

 

* Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to Government Insiders: Risk

Prison to Leak Information Exposing Illegal Government Actions *

 

As we focus on the government crackdown against leakers, we speak with

perhaps the most famous government whistleblower of the twentieth century,

Daniel Ellsberg. In 1969 he leaked the Pentagon Papers, setting in motion

actions that would eventually topple the Nixon presidency and end the

Vietnam War.

 

 

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/26/1438257