The top lawyer for the Office of Director of National Intelligence is working overtime to demonize journalism, at least the sort that might lead to US Gov accountability and transparency.
From First Look.org.quote:
The intelligence communitys top lawyer on Friday defended the Obama administrations hostility toward revelations of national security secrets - and likened the act of publishing them to drunk driving.
Robert Litt, general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, used the drunk-driving analogy to excuse his inability to cite any specific harm to individuals by news stories based on leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
"We ban drunk driving in this country," Litt asserted, arguing on a panel with four top news editors that not every crime has an identifiable victim.
Litt made the same argument earlier this week, at an event in Washington for Sunshine Week: "Not every drunk driver causes a fatal accident, but we ban drunk driving because it increases the risk of accidents. In the same way, we classify information because of the risk of harm, even if no harm actually can be shown in the end from any particular disclosure."
You got that? We should ban journalism that exposes US Gov secrets
(anything the sitting administration doesn't want voters to know), because RISK.
Seeing how US Gov's inferred risk becomes bald-faced-lies when fully exposed, I prefer to take my chances in the bog-boy-world.