About the whistleblower clamp down in government:

[cantstandbush]

So, they are going after journalists now who report on perceived "wrongdoing" by their own government? Are we fascists yet?

Just think, if there had been a free press and whistlebowers in Hitler's government...what might it have meant?

I am all for journalists reporting on illegal, unjust, and wrong actions by their government. I would only draw the line where such reporting reveals security information but to report that your government had information which they ignored that may have saved lives is not a security breach in my mind. To report on atocities and abuses being performed by your own government against innocent people is not a crime to me.

[jbnow]

1. I'm hoping they won't be able

to get away with it, but no bets.

[Ikonoklast]

2. If wrongdoing is whatever * says its

then he is in some deep trouble.

There is blood in the water now, and Bushco knows it. The journalists that have been cowed and bullied for so long are starting to find the chinks in the armor; those on the inside so sick of these criminals that they are willing to talk to the press, even when at risk of being called traitors.

Same thing happenned to Nixon, and his response was the same.

[nannah]

3. when they got alito

they finished stacking the deck relative to legal actions; now they are ready to use the courts to underwrite what the congress won't.

[cantstandbush]

4. True. n/t