
Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Trevor Timm has written a fascinating article that exposes just how similar the U.S. government’s treatment of WikiLeaks is to the way in which they are currently behaving towards mainstream U.S. journalists.
The FPF state that they have always believed that WikiLeaks right to gather and publish classified information in the public interest must be protected in the same way as the rights of mainstream media organizations like Fox News or the Associated Press. However despite the fact that the organization’s are seen the same in the eyes of the law, back when WikiLeaks first came under DoJ scrutiny at the beginning of 2011, many journalists and mainstream media organizations intentionally stayed silent about their treatment and because of this silence, the DoJ have been able to use many of those tactics in recent attacks on them. Continue Reading











