Gonzales's war on the press: "It is hard to believe it is coincidental."

[BurtWorm]

Katrina vanden Heuvel says:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=88207


And if you didn't think this administration was waging war on the press before, here are the facts as presented by James Goodale in a recent article for The New York Law Journal:

• The Chronicle reporters face jail time for not revealing sources on the baseball story
• Gonzales is considering an indictment of the New York Times
• The FBI is reportedly tapping reporters phones
• The FBI is seeking 20 year-old classified documents from the estate of Jack Anderson
• The government is attempting to circumvent the First Amendment through an 89 year-old law, The Espionage Act

As Goodale writes, "It is hard to believe it is coincidental."

Because it isn't. Gonzales intends to shut up reporters by any means necessary. So much so that even conservatives like Corallo are finally speaking out.

[MADem]

1. New expense account item for reporters: "tosser" phones

and phone cards, like the drug dealers use. Ya wanna talk to a source, you hand him a phone and a stack of phone cards, all bought for cash at a big box or convenience store...get a wino to buy them for you, so your image doesn't appear on the security cameras.

Police state...it's what's for dinner...~!

[Disturbed]

2. The Bush Regime wasn't complaining about the Press

when the Corp Media was complicit with their RW Agenda and the Illegal Invasion of Iraq. Now that the Corp Media is reporting on the criminal acts of the Bush Regime it is being subjected to threats and intimidation.

[redqueen]

3. *sigh*

I wonder who'll win the power struggle... the corporations or the people.

Looks like it's getting down to the wire.

[peacetalksforall]

4. How do so many creatures find each other? Burtwrom - thanks for

posting and listing the constitutional atrocities. We need to keep making lists to get the impact. They want and need the material to be as scattered and confusing as possible.

Kick and recommend!