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Article: Disappearing act: the Bush administration is going to great lengths to hide information that once had been public.(FIRST AMENDMENT WATCH)(George W. Bush)
- Article from:
- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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The Bush administration can't stand it when the press reveals something it wanted to keep under wraps. It's determined to find out who exposed the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program to the press. And when the CIA announced in late April that it had fired intelligence officer Mary McCarthy for unauthorized contact with journalists, the message to government employees was hard to miss: If you dare to talk to reporters, we'll find you, and you'll lose your job.
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Not that this is new. Governments have always tried to keep their employees from blowing the whistle, and they usually cite threats to national security ...