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constitutionalist (not verified) says:

Interesting that a free press and shielding of confidential sources for the media is seen today as a "newfound power". Until Bush this was a court protected assurance for a free press. Then again until Bush there was also those quaint ideas contained in the constitution about domestic spying, habeus Corpse, not torturing prisoners.....the list is so long.

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