FBI Searches WaPo Reporter's Home, Not For Classified Leaks, Just… Leaks
Deutsche Welle reports the FBI searched Washington Post reporter Shane Harris's home, seizing devices in a leak investigation. (DW: https://www.dw.com/en/fbi-searches-washington-post-reporters-home/a-75507082) This comes as the U.S. government escalates its war on whistleblowers and journalists. Remember how Julian Assange is still rotting in a British prison awaiting extradition for exposing war
crimes? Or how Daniel Hale received 45 months for revealing the drone program's civilian toll? Meanwhile, politicians and officials who leak selective, often misleading, information for political gain face no such scrutiny. It seems the 'national security' interest depends entirely on whose narrative is being protected. One might wonder if the intensity of these investigations correlates with the
potential embarrassment to powerful institutions, rather than actual harm to the public. It’s almost as if the 'free press' is only free to report what the powerful want it to report. Transparency, it appears, is a privilege, not a right, especially when the disclosures involve government overreach or, heaven forbid, accountability.