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Latest whistleblower arrest signals ongoing attempts to “silence the press”
“Former intelligence analyst Daniel Hale was arrested this week for leaking classified documents detailing the secretive U.S. drone program. Hale is the latest in a string of journalists charged under the Trump administration for allegedly leaking classified government intelligence. James Risen, The Intercept’s senior national security correspondent, views the arrests of journalistic sources as an attempt to stifle the “debate about this fundamental issue of who lives and dies.” He says, “It is only through a lot of different disclosures in the press that we understand what the war on terror has really been about.”
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