NSA chief General Keith Alexander’s comments last week that he wants to “make it stop,” where “it” is the journalism resulting from Edward Snowden’s leaks, were widely reported and commented on. Here is the actual video clip of him saying it.
Alexander is very frustrated, it seems, that journalism is protected unequivocally by the First Amendment. The point is lost on him that this was precisely the point of the First Amendment: to frustrate and hamstring those in power.
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