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a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. of course, theres some anti-government sentiment. howard: its a dilemma, why would journalists blow the whistle on a leaker disclosing classified secrets, which is a crime, when theyd eagerly accept such material which is not a crime? if the media agree with an i agenda such as when daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers, they turned him into a hero. one crucial difference here, the top secre...

♪ howard: "the washington post" all but fingered the man who posted a massive haul of u.s. intelligence documents. the next day the fbi arrested 21-year-old guardsman jack teixeira who was trying to impress his friends in a chat room. national security spokesman john kim kirby said the media shouldnt touch this top secret material. >> this is information that has no business in the public domain. it has no business if you dont mind me saying on the pages of, front pages of newspapers or on tel...

First time in history. >> but on other key policy questions, the obama administration has cut access to government information. and it now spending over $11 billion on secrecy, be an all-time high. the president has instructed his lawyers to defend some of the broadest determinations of secrecy powers. foek, t for example, the drone program. a recent freedom of information request asks how its used to kill suspected terrorists, butt administration argues it shouldnt have to say whether the progr...