State of Fear

The U.S.

Asked whether he was open to the possibility that The New York Times should be prosecuted for its disclosures in December concerning a National Security Agency surveillance program, Mr. Gonzales said his department was trying to determine "the appropriate course of action in that particular case."

"I'm not going to talk about it specifically," he said. "We have an obligation to enforce the law and to prosecute those who engage in criminal activity."

We have officially become a banana republic where people can be prosecuted and thrown in jail for publishing information potentially 'damaging' to the government's image. These are the kinds of abuses many people came to the U.S. to avoid, and now they are happening in our very lives. We need to win big in November and put and end to this.

Update: Glenn Greenwald is much more eloquent than I am. I will read and review his book soon.