The James Risen case and Eric Holder’s tarnished press freedom legacy – Boing Boing

—

by

Trent
in

The James Risen case and Eric Holder’s tarnished press freedom legacy

The outgoing Attorney General raised eyebrows when answering a question about his Justice Department’s notorious crackdown on leaks, and by extension the press–most notably New York Times rep…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/02/18/the-james-risen-case-and-eric.html

Along the way, we found out that the government had spied on virtually every aspect of James Risen’s digital life from phone calls, to emails, to credit card statements, bank records and more. (By the way, we still have no idea how they got this information. That’s secret.)