Commentary
Of all the ways in which we exercise our freedom in America, the exchange of information without the interference of government may be the most indispensable.
One can imagine times when the federal government is entitled to keep news or views from the American people; perhaps knowledge of a major defeat of our forces during wartime–although even that would be highly debatable, not to mention close to impossible in the age of the internet and cell phones; or recall when the U.S. Department of Energy sued the left-wing Progressive magazine in 1979 to prevent it from publishing details on how to build a hydrogen bomb. The case was dropped when the information became available in other public venues….