"Interview over. Chris said that, talking to his former colleagues, there's a Deep Freeze....on anyone covering misconduct by the government - people are afraid of going to jail."

...fearmongering bullshit. After all the shit hyped by and supported the media, why would this one incident, that has nothing to do with targeting journalist, but finding an administration leaker, create a "deep freeze"?

I found a perfect comment at Daily Kos.

I'm enjoying the irony

Probably not for the same reason most here seem to be.

The Times and AP (all the U.S. msm, actually), were perfectly willing to cheerlead the gov't and throw Wikileaks under the bus. There were no complaints when the gov't forced Twitter to turn over account details of a member of the Icelandic Parliament, but now that it is happening to them, they are suddenly apoplectic. They were "Rah, Rah" in support of the government "War on Terra" and support for DHS and all that entails, and now they've been bitten in the butt by their own hypocrisy. Their outrage is way late, and now they are the ones being ground under the boot of the police state that they celebrated when it was being created.

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1209188/50179279#c49

There were a lot of people consistent in their opposition any leak of damaging classified information, but clearly the media are being hypocrites, especially after hyping the GOP position that the WH may be involved in leaks.

Leaks could sink Obama Whitehouse (2012)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022843810

Clearly people didn't stop talking to the press after the hounding of Wikileaks, which the media fully supported.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

10. It IS a scandal.

Reply to Junkdrawer (Original post)

Wed May 15, 2013, 09:03 AM

May 2013

Big Brother would be proud.

Thanks for the heads-up. Will viddy.

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)

12. It's "How many fingers am I holding up?" day...

Reply to Octafish (Reply #10)

Wed May 15, 2013, 09:46 AM

May 2013

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

13. Blue...Yellow...AAAAAAEEEEEEEEEYEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to Junkdrawer (Reply #12)

Wed May 15, 2013, 10:29 AM

May 2013

What the penniless soshulis say:

The criminalization of political dissent in America

Tom Carter
wsws.org 14 May 2013

EXCERPT...

Last week, Massachusetts high school student Cameron D’Ambrosio was arrested and charged under “terrorism” laws merely for posting lyrics on Facebook that make reference to the Boston Marathon bombings. He faces 20 years in prison. A string of similar “terror” prosecutions around the country take aim at the First Amendment protection of free speech and political expression.

SNIP...

The authorities have already branded select participants in Occupy Wall Street and anti-NATO protests as “terrorists.” Last year, heavily-armed “domestic terrorism” commandos raided Occupy Wall Street protesters’ homes in Washington and Oregon, using battering rams and stun grenades. The commandos were authorized to seize all “anti-government or anarchist literature or material.”

As with freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, also guaranteed under the First Amendment, has not been officially repealed. The reality, however, is that political assembly is already a semi-criminal activity in America. Political protests are routinely met with vastly disproportionate police mobilizations, confinement to oxymoronic “free speech zones,” “kettling” (in which protesters are surrounded and forcibly moved in one direction or prevented from leaving an area), beatings, tear gas, pepper spray, stun grenades or rubber bullets. The standard government response to a political protest is a massive show of force, complete with police snipers on rooftops.

The drive towards the establishment of an American police state, initiated under the Bush administration, has shifted into high gear under Obama. For nearly twelve years, the phony “war on terror” has been used as the overarching pretext for illegal imperialist war abroad and a methodical assault on democratic rights at home. The basic structure of authoritarian rule is now emerging into plain view.

Over the recent period, the government has vastly expanded its warrantless surveillance of the population. The Obama administration has constructed a massive data center in Utah big enough to store the contents of every personal computer in the country. Already at a government agent’s fingertips--without a warrant--are all of a person’s Internet browsing activity, telephone conversations, text messages, credit card transactions, mobile phone GPS location data, travel itineraries, Skype and Facebook data, medical records, criminal records, financial records and surveillance camera footage.

CONTINUED...

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/14/pers-m14.html

Thanks for making it clear, Junkdrawer. Something must be seriously wrong with me. They even believe in a political system where everyone has a vote. Imagine these days that wouldn't get past John Roberts discerning eye or much traction on DU.

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)

14. The big temptation would be to duck and hope your head isn't the one above the wall...