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CIA is monitoring the calls of media reporters


Mary Shaw
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Farewell to freedom of the press. While most of the mainstream media have been asleep (or wearing corporate muzzles) for the past four years or so, this will seal the status quo:

ABC news is reporting that the CIA is monitoring the calls of various media, supposedly to identify "anonymous" sources in leak cases.

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Is nothing sacred anymore? (Rhetorical question, of course.)

Ben Franklin, that great patriot and newspaper publisher, would be mortified.
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Mary Shaw is a Philadelphia-based writer and activist, with a focus on politics, human rights, and social justice. She is a former Philadelphia Area Coordinator for the Nobel-Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, and her views (more...)
 
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