Pass the Daniel Ellsberg Act!
Plus: Free Estefany Rodríguez from ICE
DHS celebrates Sunshine Week with illegal firing of FOIA officer
Plus: Rep. Tlaib introduces the Ellsberg Act
The public deserves to know when Iran war reporting is stifled
An unprecedented censorship infrastructure will obscure the fighting
Press must be transparent about wartime censorship
No, Florida should not have its own CIA
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DOJ’s ridiculous attempt to prosecute Don Lemon fails
Also: Judge halts search of records seized from Washington Post reporter
Tulsi Gabbard’s hypocritical chokehold on whistleblowers
FPF FOIA shows the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has no credibility
Reality and the Espionage Act
The first whistleblower prosecuted by the Trump administration, Reality Winner pled guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act. Her case is the latest in a long history of targeting sources and whistleblowers under the draconian law.
Obama used the Espionage Act to put a record number of reporters' sources in jail, and Trump could be even worse
Will the Trump administration use the Espionage Act to prosecute reporters?
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees