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The Justice Department is expected to indict former Senator John Edwards as early as Wednesday for violating federal campaign finance laws. On this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show," the host along with Time magazine's Joe Klein and the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan said the DOJ should leave Edwards alone (video follows with transcript and commentary):
For civilians, free speech is protected by the First Amendment. Not so in the US military.
A committee was formed to identify the extent of extremism within its ranks.
Tweets, retweets and likes on social media are all on the list of things for which military officials are punishing service members, for fostering hate online.
The U.S. military's revised approach to political speech prohibits retweeting or even "liking" messages that promote anti-government or white nationalist and other extremist groups.