Monday, May 22, 2006

Att Gen Gonzales: Prosecute Journalists


Wow. Little did I know that I went sleep in 2006 America and woke up in Mussolini's fascist Italy (via Wash Post): "On ABC's "This Week" Att Gen Alberto "Abu Ghraib" Gonzales raised the possibility that journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified info, based on the outcome of the criminal investigation underway into leaks to the NYTs of data about the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping surveillance of calls between the US and abroad." Lucy Dalglish, exec dir of the Reporters Comm for Freedom of the Press, said she presumed that Gonzales was referring to the 1917 Espionage Act, which she said has never been interpreted to prosecute journalists who were providing info to the public. "I can't imagine a bigger chill on free speech and the public's right to know what it's govt is up to — both hallmarks of a democracy — than prosecuting reporters," Dalglish said." You said it sister... but in Bush World, ya learn to painfully accept the twilight of democracy. Let's face it: These journalists who are now justifiably horrified and running around screaming like chickens w/ their heads cut off couldn't shove BushCo's fascist agenda down our throats quick enough and tried to convince us we were unpatriotic if we didn't gobble it up. Karmic justice can be a bitch. Sadly, all of us will pay this deadly price, but America the democratic republic takes the hardest hit of all. Is this how the Roman Empire felt in their last days?
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