SocraticGadfly: Governments leaning on media for using leakers — not just in America

July 02, 2006

Governments leaning on media for using leakers — not just in America

And no, it’s not in the Third World I’m talking about either.

Here’s the details.

The German government has been spying on journalists since the 1990s.

The Danish government is taking two newspaper reporters to trial this fall over a leak-based story about the intelligence-contradicted drive to invasion of Iraq.

The British government is taking two reporters to trial over a story that Prime Minister Blair worked to talk President Bush out of bombing Arab TV station al-Jazeera’s headquarters.

The Dutch secret service tapped phone calls of two reporters covering government corruption.

Some democracy, eh?

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