Espionage Act to Silence and Prosecute Federal Workers
Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration’s press secretary, Jay Carney, opened on a somber note, citing the deaths of Marie Colvin and Anthony Shadid, two reporters who had...
View ArticleCongress Wants to Prosecute New York Times Journalists
For more than a year now, EFF has encouraged mainstream press publications like the New York Times to aggressively defend WikiLeaks’ First Amendment right to publish classified information in the...
View ArticleDOJ Apparently Incapable of Prosecuting Wall Street
How do we make sense of this? Goldman Sachs emails call their own investments “junk” and “crap,” and Goldman Sachs salespeople refer to clients as “muppets” and “elephants.” Yet the Justice Department...
View ArticleWashington State Continues Prosecuting Marijuana Cases Despite Legalization
Last May, a Bellevue police officer found seven grams of marijuana in the car of a 26 year-old tech-industry worker. There is no evidence driver, Aaron MacPhee, was high or drunk; he had no criminal...
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