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To: jeffc; MestaMachine

The point of this legislation is to go after the sources who leak classified or sensitive information to other than “corporate media.”

IIRC, Fast & Furious was leaked to Legal Insurrection and another non-corporate news site. (Correct me if I’m wrong, MM.) This bill is intended to prevent non-standard news distribution sites from being able to protect their sources.

The unintended consequences, however, of legally distinguishing traditional corporate media from citizen journalists could be disastrous and used by this administration to target their political opponents as happened with the IRS targeting of Tea Party organizations.


23 posted on 09/13/2013 5:47:25 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
could be! be disastrous..

and will be disastrous if we are not ever MORE VIGILANT.

this ones going to COURT!!
31 posted on 09/13/2013 6:32:38 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Quite frankly we need more muckrakers....not less.


35 posted on 09/13/2013 7:02:38 PM PDT by EBH (America is not judge, jury, and executioner for the world.)
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