Justice Department probes leading to the seizure of journalists' phone and e-mail records have prompted a review of the government's practices in investigating leaks of secret information, President Barack Obama said Thursday.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
ZitatI am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," Obama said, noting he had directed Attorney General Eric Holder to review the government's guidelines on such matters. Holder will convene a panel of media organizations as part of his review.
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