Jan 14, 2015: Zoe Carpenter: The Nation: When It Comes to the GOP’s Race Problem, Scalise Is Just a Sidesho

ON THE RECORD: Feb 5, 2014: Zoe Carpenter (The Nation) asks "Is Glenn Greenwald a Criminal?"  She premises the article with information about the 1798 Sedition Act which made it it a crime to publish “any false, scandalous and malicious writing” that would bring Congress and the president into “contempt or disrepute.” She writes, "The Sedition Act was one of the first challenges to the First Amendment, which asserts freedom of speech and the press. The act expired after Thomas Jefferson won the presidency and reaffirmed citizens’ right “to think freely and to speak and write what they think.”" The House intelligence Committee just had a hearing in which Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican in charge of the House Intelligence Committee, "has come up with a new way to silence reporters responsible for stories he considers threatening to national security. In a lengthy exchange in a hearing on Tuesday with FBI director James Comey about the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, Rogers suggested that because reporters are profiting from stories based on these stolen documents, they have committed crimes." Ironically, these attacks on press freedom come as the Obama administration is trying to assure journalists that they are not being targeted. FBI Director, James Comey, "went so far as to suggest that journalists working with the Snowden documents may be implicated in an “active investigation.” He told Rogers, “We are looking at the totality of circumstances around the theft and promulgation.”"
ARS Technica: Senior Congressman calls Greenwald a “thief” who sold NSA documents
Politico: Glenn Greenwald denies selling NSA documents
The Guardian: Senior US congressman Mike Rogers: Glenn Greenwald is 'a thief'

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