Peter Maas, Intercept - Sterling’s case has drawn attention primarily for two reasons: it was
part of the Obama Administration’s controversial crackdown on leakers
and whistleblowers, and prosecutors had tried to force the Times reporter, James Risen, to divulge the name of his source, whom the government believed was Sterling. The case, known as United States of America v. Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, was treated mainly as a freedom-of-the-press issue, with Risen as the heroic centerpiece. Lost in the judicial briefs about the First Amendment was the black man in the middle.
An exceptional account of what can happen to government whistleblowers
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