Eric Holder's lasting damage to press freedom

From Columbia Journalism Review Tue Nov 25 2014, 11:50:00

By Kelly J O'Brien The fact that outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder has prosecuted more people under the Espionage Act than all previous attorneys general combined is an inescapable legacy of his time in office. All of those cases were brought against government workers or contractors accused of leaking classified information to the media, which led Trevor Timm, co-founder of the Freedom of...

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