The Trump administration spied on journalists. The Biden administration defended it.
On Friday, Devlin Barrett, a reporter at the
New Yorker). The records in question covered a period between April and July 2017, during which time Nakashima, Miller, and Entous collaborated on storiesabout Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Justice Department only notified the reporters of its actions last week; it said that it also obtained a court order to get their email records, but did not follow through.
The Justice Department stressed that it was investigating leaks to the reporters, not the reporters themselves, but the clarification, quite rightly, failed to cut it with journalists and press-freedom groups. Cameron Barr, the acting executive editor of the
Follow RT on As US President Joe Biden marked World Press Freedom Day with praise of heroic independent media, his government still seeks to jail Julian Assange of WikiLeaks for the act of journalism, said NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The famed national security whistleblower took the administration to task on Monday, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken boasted of the US devotion to
“press freedom” and
“the safety of journalists worldwide.” Assange’s ongoing prosecution is impossible to square with those vows, Snowden said.
“This would be more persuasive if the White House weren t aggressively seeking an 175-year sentence for the publisher of award-winning journalism of global importance – despite pleas from every significant press freedom and human rights organization,” he tweeted.
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[ Last Update: Tuesday, 04 May 2021 10:29 AM ] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces 18 federal counts related to allegations of illegally obtaining, receiving and disclosing classified information. (Photo by AFP)
American whistleblower Edward Snowden says the US government still seeks to jail WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the act of journalism despite US President Joe Biden s claim of praise for heroic independent media on World Press Freedom Day.
Snowden tweeted on Monday that, “This would be more persuasive if the White House weren t aggressively seeking an 175-year sentence for the publisher of award-winning journalism of global importance – despite pleas from every significant press freedom and human rights organization.”
Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, has proposed banning police from buying access to user data from data brokers, including ones that “illegitimately obtained” their records.
“The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act” is sponsored by 20 members of the U.S. Senate.
The proposed act:
â« Requires the government to get a court order to compel data brokers to disclose data the same kind of court order needed to compel data from tech and phone companies.
â« Stops law enforcement and intelligence agencies buying data on people in the United States and about Americans abroad, if the data was obtained from a user’s account or device, or via deception, hacking, violations of a contract, privacy policy or terms of service.