From Canada: 'Washington's obsession with leakers'

Source: CBC News

Once again, the powerful organs of U.S. state security have gone to war.

And once again, they seem to have the backing of a complacent American public, a sympathetic Congress and some national media outlets that were tamed long ago.

The justification for the offensive is, once again, protecting Americans from terrorists. It's a reliable trope, the same one used for the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This time, though, the government's legal and propaganda weaponry — both overt and covert — is trained on a different enemy: the activists, computer geeks, libertarians and, yes, certain journalists who've undermined the official secrecy behind which America's ever-expanding security-industrial complex operates.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/18/f-rfa-macdonald-leakers.html