<blockquote>We have the spectacle of communications between two American journalists-in-exile—reduced to passing information via courier because their government is spying on everything they do online—busted up by the US’s top ally, apparently with <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/world/europe/greenwald-partner-detained/?hpt=wo_c2" target="_blank">no protest </a>from the Obama administration, which was given a heads-up.

On top of that, Greenwald’s paper has been threatened by its own government with prior restraint and had its hard drives smashed in its basement to make a (stupid) point.

This is police-state stuff. We need to know the American government’s role in these events—and its stance on them—sooner rather than later.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/guardian_bombshells_in_an_esca.php">Guardian bombshells in an escalating battle against journalism : Columbia Journalism Review</a>.