It’s really ridiculous. I’m just waiting for the first search of a newsroom to come down and for someone to say, ‘You can’t report we just searched you.

The government appears to be going very aggressively after these types of leak cases, … and when reporters are involved, I’m just gritting my teeth.

Once you turn your hard drives over to a government entity and they have your computers, they essentially have access to the newsroom.

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People clearly think that their federal government is more secretive than state or local governments. And they are probably right. It has become more difficult to get information out of the federal government.

I know a journalist when I see one.

What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what’s going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight...

It’s certainly not dead. It’s just been put on the back-burner. We know they’re still interested. … They’ve just become preoccupied.

When you have more and more information being classified, and more and more secrets being kept, the only way reporters can get information is when internal whistleblowers provide it. And that drives this administration crazy.

There is no question that there are more restrictions coming down. There is rampant secrecy in both federal and state courtrooms.

This is pretty much exactly where I thought we would be a year ago when all of this started to happen.

I think this has an absolute chilling effect.

This is about the only good news I’ve had all week. Clearly, people are starting to understand that information is being taken away from them.

I’m not aware of any previous government attempt to retrieve such material. Librarians and historians are having a fit, and I can’t imagine a bigger chill to journalists.

That’s exactly where we’re headed. We’re going to see a situation where to report to the public what’s going on is ultimately going to lead to leaks investigations. . . . That’s enormously troublesome.

More reporters should consider doing that.

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It’s really ridiculous,

I’d be very loath to be critical of what Judith did,

you can also argue that the media did a lot to rehabilitate his reputation in recent years. A lot of people feel sorry for him.