The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss
what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of
the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing
the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and
editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the
general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and
Hartford, Connecticut, and the main number for the AP in the House of
Representatives press gallery. The action likely came as part of a probe
into the leaks behind an AP story on the U.S. intelligence operation
that stopped a Yemen-based al-Qaeda bombing plot on a U.S.-bound
airplane. Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and former New
York Times reporter, calls the monitoring "one more assault in a long
series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the
press." Highlighting the Obama administration’s targeting of government
whistleblowers, Hedges adds: "Talk to any investigative journalist who
must investigate the government, and they will tell you that there is a
deep freeze. People are terrified of speaking, because they’re terrified
of going to jail."
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