We have the spectacle of communications between two American journalists-in-exile—reduced to passing information via courier because their government is spying on everything they do online—busted up by the US’s top ally, apparently with no protest from the Obama administration, which was given a heads-up.
On top of that, Greenwald’s paper has been threatened by its own government with prior restraint and had its hard drives smashed in its basement to make a (stupid) point.
This is police-state stuff. We need to know the American government’s role in these events—and its stance on them—sooner rather than later.
via Guardian bombshells in an escalating battle against journalism : Columbia Journalism Review.