How free is our freedom of the press? | Trevor Timm

In the US, the press has a right to publish secret information the public needs to know, protected by the First Amendment. Government surveillance has made it increasingly more dangerous for...

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So this is James Risen.You may know him as the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporterfor The New York Times.Long before anybody knew Edward Snowden's name,Risen wrote a book in which he famously exposedthat the NSA was illegally wiretapping the phone calls of Americans.But it's another chapter in that bookthat may have an even more lasting impact.In it, he describes a catastrophic US intelligence operationin which the CIA quite literally handed over blueprintsof a nuclear bomb to Iran.If that sounds crazy, go read it.It's an incredible story.But you know who didn't like that chapter?The US government.For nearly a decade afterwards,Risen was the subject of a US government investigationin which prosecutors demanded that he testifyagainst one of h...