"The Thomas Drake Affair..."

President Obama versus Freedom of the American Press??!!

"[T]he Obama administration has brought more leak prosecutions than all previous presidential administrations combined ...


Snippets from David Wise's article, "Leaks and the Law: The prosecution of Thomas Drake highlights the tension between government secrecy and the public's right to know." In the Smithsonian magazine. July / August 2011.

"As president - elect Barack Obama took the position that whistle blowing by government employees was an act of courage and patriotism that should be encouraged rather than stifled.

"But Drake's indictment is only one in an extraordinary string of leak investigations, arrests, and prosecutions undertaken by the Obama administration.

"According to Jesselyn A. Radack of the Government Accountability Project, a whistle blower advocacy organization, the Obama administration has brought more leak prosecutions than all previous presidential administrations combined.

"Radack, a former Justice Department attorney, was herself a whistle blower, having told a reporter in 2002 that FBI interrogators violated the rights of American terrorism suspect John Walker Lindh to have an attorney present during questioning ... "

Good points! :)