First Amendment lawyer James C. Goodale, who represented the New York Times in the Penaton Papers case, wrote in the newspaper on Tuesday that President Barack Obama is poised to surpass former President Richard Nixon “as the worst president ever on issues of national security and press freedom.”
Goodale wrote that the Department of Justice’s subpoena of Associated Press phone records was “bad enough,” but that the search warrant to access Fox News reporter James Rosen’s personal emails was unprecedented.
“Until President Obama came into office, no one thought talking or emailing was not protected by the First Amendment,” Goodale wrote. “President Obama wants to criminalize the reporting of national security information. This will stop reporters from asking for information that might be classified. Leaks will stop and so will the free flow of information to the public.”
Read Goodale’s entire piece here.
