A while ago I wrote about the Bush administration using warrant-less data mining to try and find journalists secret sources.

Now it seems that attorney general Alberto Gonzales says that it may be possible to prosecute journalists that public information that they got from secret sources, or that is classified. Revealing CIA illegal secret prisons, or illegal torturing, secret energy policies that favor the oil companies, the lack of planning for the Iraq war, all of which we as citizens need to know, could get the reporter arrested.

This is a bald faced attempt to stifle free speech and to keep the governments illegal secrets, secret. When journalists are unable to find out the illegal workings of the government our democracy suffers. Think back to all the scandals that have been revealed by journalists, conservative or liberal you should be happy that these muck raker’s are out doing there job.

Watch Alberto talk in his own words below, and then here from the ABC reporters on how they feel about there phones being monitored.

Download this video here. (wmv)

Download this video here. (wmv)