MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2006
"Reliable Sources"
That's what former presidential adviser
David Gergen says. "This administration has engaged in secrecy at a level we have not seen in over 30 years," he tells
Howard Kurtz.
"Unfortunately, I have to bring up the name of
Richard Nixon, because we haven't seen it since the days of Nixon. And now what they're doing -- and they're using the war on terror to justify -- is they're starting to target journalists who try to pierce the veil of secrecy and find things and put them in the newspapers. ... This is the first administration that I can remember, including Nixon's, that said ... that we need to think about a law that would put journalists who print national security things to bring them up in front of grand juries and put them in jail if they don't -- in effect, if they don't reveal their sources."
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Bush administration initiatives target journalists and their sources (WP)
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