One Long, One Shorter
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It is ‘deeply troubling’ that FBI agents who questioned Bryan Carmody did not abide by rules intended to protect journalists.
FBI agents did not follow Justice Department guidelines intended to protect journalists and their sources when they questioned Bryan Carmody during last year’s high-profile police raid of the freelance journalist’s San Francisco home, according to a recent Reporters Committee legal filing in a public records lawsuit against the Justice Department.
The FBI and the Justice Department’s Criminal Division also failed to adequately search for records related to the raid in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the Reporters Committee. And the FBI unlawfully withheld the names of two agents who questioned Carmody.
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Now the world can read Mary Trump’s blistering book about her uncle.
No book is going to make much of a difference in the way President Trump is viewed by American voters.
The publishing industry has cranked out dozens, if not hundreds, of critical Trump-related volumes over the past four years, and still his base holds steady. His approval ratings sit at 40 percent — apparently immovable despite the bungled handling of a global pandemic, reports of Russian bounties paid to kill U.S. soldiers or thousands of Trumpian lies.
Still, the new book by the president’s niece, Mary Trump, is a matter of valid public concern, especially in an election year. And holding it back — as a New York state judge did earlier this week by issuing a temporary restraining order — would have amounted to censorship, the very thing that the First Amendment was written to prohibit.
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