Jonathan Turley on Prosecuting Journalis
- 17 years ago
Turley joined Olbermann on"Countdown" and was outraged that Alberto Gonzales is talking about locking up journalists. He thinks they are not just blowing smoke to scare them off and I agree.
Jonathan Turley: We now have a government that has virtually no oversight functioning against the White House. The Congress has gone into a virtual comatose state. The Fourth Estate–the journalists — are carrying now the entirety of that check and balance. These efforts will eliminate that and it would create, in my view, a very dangerous instability at a very dangerous time, and people have got to look at this quite seriously.
So, we’re left with the media to do the oversight on this administration…..(and they’re being threatened with jail for doing so…
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Jonathan Turley: We now have a government that has virtually no oversight functioning against the White House. The Congress has gone into a virtual comatose state. The Fourth Estate–the journalists — are carrying now the entirety of that check and balance. These efforts will eliminate that and it would create, in my view, a very dangerous instability at a very dangerous time, and people have got to look at this quite seriously.
So, we’re left with the media to do the oversight on this administration…..(and they’re being threatened with jail for doing so…
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