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Threatens Journalism, Law and Thus Democracy: Report
Threatens Journalism, Law and Thus Democracy: Report
Interviews
with dozens of leading journalists and attorneys found that U.S. government
overreach is eroding critically important freedoms
by Lauren McCauley, staff writer (CommonDreams)
The impunity with which the American government spies on
journalists and attorneys is undermining the American people's ability to hold
their leaders accountable, thus threatening the core of our democracy, charged
a joint report published Monday by two leading rights organizations.
The report—With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy, published by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch—draws from extensive interviews with dozens of top journalists, lawyers and senior government officials. What the authors found is that recent revelations of widespread government surveillance have forced many professionals to alter or abandon work related to "matters of great public concern."
According to the report, "Surveillance has magnified existing concerns among journalists and their sources over the administration’s crackdown on leaks." With increasing prosecution of whistleblowers, restrictions on communication between intelligence officials and the media, and snitch programs for federal workers, journalists say that their sources have become "increasingly scared to talk about anything."
"It's a terrible time to be covering government," NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten told the report authors.
Further, journalists are forced to employ elaborate means of communicating with their sources, such as encryption and "burner" phones, which hampers their work.
The report argues that these increasing impediments have resulted in "less information reaching the public," thus having a "direct effect on the public’s ability to obtain important information about government activities, and on the ability of the media to serve as a check on government."
"Secrecy works against all of us," said Dana Priest, a reporter for the Washington Post. "What makes government better is our work exposing information. It's not just that it's harder for me to do my job, though it is. It [also] makes the country less safe."
Similarly, lawyers say that government surveillance has crippled their ability to maintain confidential correspondence with their clients, threatening the trust, free exchange of information, and potentially the security of those involved.
Jason Wright, a member of the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps who does work before the Guantanamo commissions, told the researchers that he and his colleagues are "fearful" that their communications with witnesses abroad are being monitored and consequently, attempts to build their case "might put people in harm's way."
The authors charge that this amounts to the "erosion of the right to counsel," which they say is a "pillar of procedural justice under human rights law and the US Constitution."
"The US holds itself out as a model of freedom and democracy, but its own surveillance programs are threatening the values it claims to represent," said report author Alex Sinha, Aryeh Neier Fellow at HRW and the ACLU. "The US should genuinely confront the fact that its massive surveillance programs are damaging many critically important rights."
Along with the report, the groups published this video highlighting their work.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bloPC_BHCDQ
The report—With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy, published by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch—draws from extensive interviews with dozens of top journalists, lawyers and senior government officials. What the authors found is that recent revelations of widespread government surveillance have forced many professionals to alter or abandon work related to "matters of great public concern."
According to the report, "Surveillance has magnified existing concerns among journalists and their sources over the administration’s crackdown on leaks." With increasing prosecution of whistleblowers, restrictions on communication between intelligence officials and the media, and snitch programs for federal workers, journalists say that their sources have become "increasingly scared to talk about anything."
"It's a terrible time to be covering government," NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten told the report authors.
Further, journalists are forced to employ elaborate means of communicating with their sources, such as encryption and "burner" phones, which hampers their work.
The report argues that these increasing impediments have resulted in "less information reaching the public," thus having a "direct effect on the public’s ability to obtain important information about government activities, and on the ability of the media to serve as a check on government."
"Secrecy works against all of us," said Dana Priest, a reporter for the Washington Post. "What makes government better is our work exposing information. It's not just that it's harder for me to do my job, though it is. It [also] makes the country less safe."
Similarly, lawyers say that government surveillance has crippled their ability to maintain confidential correspondence with their clients, threatening the trust, free exchange of information, and potentially the security of those involved.
Jason Wright, a member of the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps who does work before the Guantanamo commissions, told the researchers that he and his colleagues are "fearful" that their communications with witnesses abroad are being monitored and consequently, attempts to build their case "might put people in harm's way."
The authors charge that this amounts to the "erosion of the right to counsel," which they say is a "pillar of procedural justice under human rights law and the US Constitution."
"The US holds itself out as a model of freedom and democracy, but its own surveillance programs are threatening the values it claims to represent," said report author Alex Sinha, Aryeh Neier Fellow at HRW and the ACLU. "The US should genuinely confront the fact that its massive surveillance programs are damaging many critically important rights."
Along with the report, the groups published this video highlighting their work.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bloPC_BHCDQ
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or that there is no need to copyright the information or image as we
wish it to be distributed freely and reused in whatever way.
N.B.: We have the right to freedom of opinion and expression;
this right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference
and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through
any media and regardless of frontiers. Art. 19 UN-UDHR
This e-mail is protected by UN Resolution A/RES/45/120 and
A/RES/53/144 as well as EU – Annex doc 10111/06 conc. UN
Resolution 217 A (III) and the Paris Charta for a New Europe.
We do not tolerate censorship nor intercepts of our genuine e-mails.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled on 24 November
2011 already that generalized content filtering violates fundamental
rights. The court has thereby recognized the impact of Internet
filtering on freedom of expression and freedom of information.
In addition the European Court of Justice invalidated on 08. April 2014
the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive policy, ruling that
indiscriminate data retention is completely unacceptable. These are
crucial steps forward in the defence of Internet freedom.
Europe's top court, the European Union Court of Justice (ECJ), also
decided on May 13 2014 that People must be able to remove their
digital traces from the Internet and can ask Google to delete sensitive
information from its Internet search results. Learn more about:
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