United States - Who will dare talk to the media after another whistleblower is jailed?

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that former FBI agent Donald Sachtleben was sentenced to three and a half years in prison yesterday for revealing to an Associated Press reporter how the CIA foiled a plot to blow up an airliner flying from Yemen to the United States. After the AP published a report based on Sachtleben's information in early 2012, the Department of Justice secretly seized the records of 20 of the news agency's phone lines as part of its efforts to identify the (...)

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