Obama administration assaults press freedom like no predecessor
February 2, 2012 in Headline, Politics
By Wayne Madsen - taken from intrepidreport.com
(WMR)—WMR has learned and has personally experienced the unprecedented assault by the Obama administration, aided and abetted by its intelligence and internal security infrastructure, on the First Amendment right of freedom of the press.
The Obama administration has indicted a total of six U.S. government employees for violating the arcane 1917 Espionage Act for allegedly communicating classified information to the press. The Obama administration, according to multi-agency U.S. government sources , has authorized the eavesdropping of journalists’ e-mails, text messages, and phone calls to determine with whom they are in contact within the government, particularly in the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, the CIA, the U.S. Congress’ intelligence oversight committees, and the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA and FBI are also monitoring what websites are visited by government employees.
