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U.S. repression of journalists
and their sources
WASHINGTON,
March 5.—Journalists and their information sources
within the U.S. state apparatus are in the sights of
the Bush administration, according to today’s
edition of The Washington Post.
The daily informs that new
measures include various FBI tests, the use of lie
detectors within the CIA and a warning from the
Justice Department to the press, PL reports.
In this case, reporters are to be
charged under the counterespionage laws, according
to the Post.
In what many consider a White
House witch hunt, in recent weeks dozens of
employees in the CIA, the National Security Agency
and other espionage mechanisms have been interviewed
by FBI agents.
These investigations are to
ascertain the sources of information that leaked the
scandal over the CIA secret jails in Eastern Europe
and the tapping program undertaken by the NSA on
government instructions.
Bill Keller, executive editor of
The New York Times, has expressed concern at
this type of rhetoric and noted that the government
is declaring war at home on values sit promotes
abroad.
In contrast to the White House
offensive is the current scandal on the leaking of
the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame,
intentionally spilled by Lewis Libby, head of the
cabinet of Vice President Dick Cheney, who
authorized the “leak.”
CUTBACKS ON SOCIAL PROGRAMS
Prensa Latina also highlighted
the impact of cuts to social programs in the United
States is tremendous and terrible for the community,
as El Nuevo Herald of Florida informs.
The effect could prove a
devastating blow on services for the most needy in
the community, affirm local authorities in
Miami-Dade, quoted by the newspaper.
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