Lucy Dalglish Quotations

There is no question that there are more restrictions coming down. There is rampant secrecy in both federal and state courtrooms.

What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what's going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight of government if you have information.

I'd be very loath to be critical of what Judith did,

Journalists who cover national security and defense receive classified information all the time. It's virtually routine. If that were the standard for bringing an espionage case, we'd be locking up a lot of people in this town and there would be fewer sources of information.

I think this has an absolute chilling effect.

you can also argue that the media did a lot to rehabilitate his reputation in recent years. A lot of people feel sorry for him.

While weve always had a certain number of federal prosecutors going after journalists, were seeing a different type of phenomenon the federal employee whos been wronged. If you can somehow compel the journalists to be agents of discovery, its going to have a chilling effect, ... This is very troubling.

We're delighted that the Knight Foundation has recognized the valuable contributions the Reporters Committee has made to the public's right to know. Reporters all over the country will benefit from the continuation and expansion of the programs this grant will support.

When you have more and more information being classified, and more and more secrets being kept, the only way reporters can get information is when internal whistleblowers provide it. And that drives this administration crazy.

The government appears to be going very aggressively after these types of leak cases, ... and when reporters are involved, I'm just gritting my teeth.

The Supreme Court has said that criminal proceedings are public. In this country, we don't prosecute and lock up convicts and have no public track record of how we got there. That violates the defendants' rights not to mention the public's right to know what it's court system is doing.

People clearly think that their federal government is more secretive than state or local governments. And they are probably right. It has become more difficult to get information out of the federal government.

Once you turn your hard drives over to a government entity and they have your computers, they essentially have access to the newsroom.

This is pretty much exactly where I thought we would be a year ago when all of this started to happen.

This is about the only good news I've had all week. Clearly, people are starting to understand that information is being taken away from them.

It's certainly not dead. It's just been put on the back-burner. We know they're still interested. ... They've just become preoccupied.

It's really ridiculous. I'm just waiting for the first search of a newsroom to come down and for someone to say, 'You can't report we just searched you.

That's exactly where we're headed. We're going to see a situation where to report to the public what's going on is ultimately going to lead to leaks investigations. . . . That's enormously troublesome.

I'm not aware of any previous government attempt to retrieve such material. Librarians and historians are having a fit, and I can't imagine a bigger chill to journalists.

I know a journalist when I see one.