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White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - SteveG - 05-15-2013
Better late than never, I guess. Maybe the obstructionists will back off this time. Credit to Chuck Schumer, but he still has responsibility for favorable Wall Street laws which brought on the crash.
White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters
By CHARLIE SAVAGE >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/us/politics/under-fire-white-house-pushes-to-revive-media-shield-bill.html
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration sought on Wednesday to revive legislation that would provide greater protections to reporters from penalties for refusing to identify confidential sources, and that would enable journalists to ask a federal judge to quash subpoenas for their phone records, a White House official said.
The official said that President Obama’s Senate liaison, Ed Pagano, called Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who is a chief proponent of a so-called media shield law, on Wednesday morning and asked him to reintroduce a bill that he had pushed in 2009. Called the Free Flow of Information Act, the bill was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a bipartisan 15-to-4 vote in December 2009. But while it was awaiting a floor vote, a furor over leaking arose after WikiLeaks began publishing archives of secret government documents, and the bill never received a vote.
The new push comes as the Obama administration has come under fire from both parties amid the disclosure this week that the Justice Department, as part of a leak investigation, secretly used a subpoena earlier this year to obtain a broad swath of calling records involving Associated Press reporters and editors.
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Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - Acer - 05-15-2013
A test. If the outrage is genuine, then this should pass. If it does not pass, then it's faux outrage.
Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - Lemon Drop - 05-15-2013
Fox says hens need a better fence!
well that's nice but unless Eric Holder loses his job over this it's going to be tough to take them seriously.
Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - cbelt3 - 05-15-2013
"Stop us before we do it again !".
Holder's NPR interview was painful.
"I sign a lot of these orders. I'm not sure how many."
Apparently the DOJ has been spying on the media as part of regular 'leak' witch hunts. And the Dems were so up in arms over the whole Plame witch hunt thing... It's surprising what happens when that National Security shoe is on the other foot.
Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - Ted King - 05-15-2013
What a difference a year makes:
06/07/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/dianne-feinstein-saxby-chambliss-leaks-new-york-times_n_1578383.html
WASHINGTON -- Four top lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees condemned recent national security leaks during a Thursday news conference and announced plans for legislation to prevent future breaches.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said she and her fellow lawmakers are not voicing concerns as a way of "finger pointing at anybody," including the White House. "What we're trying to do is say we have a problem and we want to stop that problem," she said. "We're not finger pointing."
Feinstein, joined by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), promised new legislation to crack down on leaks of classified information, The issue has gained traction since the publication of two front-page New York Times stories last week providing new details about President Barack Obama's secret terrorist "kill list" and the U.S. government's cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - Lemon Drop - 05-15-2013
you can still condemn the leaks of national security information and not support what DOJ did. There are legal ways to investigate leaks that don't involved trampling on the first amendment. I'm sure Sen. Feinstein is not a fan of what DOJ has done to the AP and apparently others.
Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - $tevie - 05-15-2013
Dutch Ruppersberger is Mr. CISPA, so he probably signs up for anything that looks like it might infringe on privacy or free speech.
Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - Ted King - 05-16-2013
Lemon Drop wrote:
you can still condemn the leaks of national security information and not support what DOJ did. There are legal ways to investigate leaks that don't involved trampling on the first amendment. I'm sure Sen. Feinstein is not a fan of what DOJ has done to the AP and apparently others.
That could be but think about how someone in the DOJ may have factored in the "stop the leaks" mentality that was at a fever pitch not so long ago into their calculations about how hard they should pursue this line of investigation. What they did was probably just a bit more than what they had done before - creeping rationalizations driven by an overheated atmosphere of "stop the leaks!" Not excusing what happened (see my earlier post about this in another thread), but I don't think you can divorce the decisions that were made in the DOJ from the political environment that existed after the leaks came out that started this whole mess.
Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - max - 05-16-2013
Acer wrote:
A test. If the outrage is genuine, then this should pass. If it does not pass, then it's faux outrage.
cbelt3 wrote:
"Stop us before we do it again !".
Jack The Ripper demanding stiffer laws against rape and murder....
cbelt3 wrote:
Holder's NPR interview was painful.
"I sign a lot of these orders. I'm not sure how many."
He should have been gone after the gun running fiasco....
Re: White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters - RgrF - 05-16-2013
Holder should have been gone after his failure to prosecute banking, insurance and Wall Street executives following the mortgage fiasco.