Dan Froomkin at Columbia Journalism review: "It's hardly been a secret among national security reporters and civil libertarians that the sort of intelligence activity we're hearing about via the leaks was long part of the Bush-Cheney surveillance regime, and that the Obama administration picked up the ball and ran with it. The Washington press corps just no longer considered such activities newsworthy."
The argument for a "secrecy beat" in news organizations
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