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The outgoing administration’s three biggest press freedom failures

Any Espionage Act prosecution also threatens journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post. 

Plus: Claims Paramount settlement money will go towards a library deserve heavy scrutiny

We will honor our friend by fighting for what he fought for his entire life: an end to excessive government secrecy.

Former intelligence contractor and whistleblower Reality Winner has pled guilty to leaking a secret NSA report to the press.

How a leak revealed that lies were the foundation of U.S. policy on Vietnam

Julian Assange has finally been freed after reaching a surprising deal with U.S. authorities to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act. The plea deal avoids the worst outcome of a court precedent that could be used against journalists, but it still threatens press freedom.

Former CIA director David Petraeus received his sentence today for the sweetheart plea deal he struck with the Justice Department after he was discovered to have leaked highly classified information to his biographer and lover Paula Broadwell. As was widely anticipated, the celebrated general received no jail time and instead …

The disturbing indictment against journalist Tim Burke reportedly arises in part from Burke’s dissemination of outtakes from a 2022 Tucker Carlson interview with Ye. Federal prosecutors accuse Burke of “scouring” the internet for news and failing to obtain express authorization before accessing information posted on public websites. Requiring journalists to get permission to report news is, obviously, problematic. Read more in our newsletter.

The Nixon admin tried to prosecute the New York Times under the same statute the Justice Department is going after Julian Assange today.