[Victims of Court Corruption] Taking the Snowden Prosecution A Step Further

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Taking the Snowden Prosecution
A Step Further

By Ron Branson
National JAIL4Judges Commander-In-Chief

Snowden has exposed the fact that the government is snooping into the personal communications of all Americans in violation of the Forth Amendment of the Constitution. This has upset the government! Now the government wants to prosecute Snowden for embarrassing the government in exposing their secret. However, the government is having difficulty in putting their hands upon Snowden to do him in.

Now comes a new twist. The question is now being raised by NBC as to why investigative news journalists breaking such stories, should not be prosecuted for making public such embarrassing information.

This suggests that we are now toying with the prospective that any media who dares embarrass the government for its wrong doing, should be criminally prosecuted. The answer to this ridiculous speculation, of course, is the Constitution, "Congress shall make no law respecting ... freedom of speech, or of the press..." First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But, we cannot put anything past a corrupt government. Shall we now make TRUTH a crime to be criminally prosecuted?

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Jun 23, 2013

NBC's Gregory: Why shouldn't Greenwald be charged?

By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- NBC "Meet the Press" host David Gregory got a rise out of Glenn Greenwald on Sunday by asking the Guardian reporter why he shouldn't be charged with a crime for having "aided and abetted" former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden.

Greenwald replied on the show Sunday that it was "pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felonies."

Greenwald first reported Snowden's disclosure of U.S. government surveillance programs. On Sunday, Ecuador's foreign minister and the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said that Snowden was headed to Ecuador to seek asylum.

During his interview with NBC's Gregory, Greenwald declined to discuss where Snowden was headed. That refusal seemed to prompt Gregory to ask: "To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?"

Greenwald said Gregory was embracing the Obama administration's attempt to "criminalize investigative journalism," citing an FBI agent's characterization of Fox News journalist James Rosen as a probable co-conspirator of a State Department contractor who was suspected of leaking classified information to Rosen. Rosen was not charged.

"If you want to embrace that theory, it means that every investigative journalist in the United States who works with their sources, who receives classified information is a criminal, and it's precisely those theories and precisely that climate that has become so menacing in the United States," said Greenwald, a former constitutional and civil rights lawyer who has written three books contending that the government has violated personal rights in the name of protecting national security.

Gregory responded that "the question of who is a journalist may be up to a debate with regard to what you are doing." Gregory also said he was merely asking a question.

"That question has been raised by lawmakers as well," Gregory said. "I'm not embracing anything, but, obviously, I take your point."

Later, Greenwald tweeted, "Who needs the government to try to criminalize journalism when you have David Gregory to do it?" and, "Has David Gregory ever publicly wondered if powerful DC officials should be prosecuted for things like illegal spying & lying to Congress?"