Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Nick Turse is the managing editor of TomDispatch.com and a fellow at the Nation Institute. An award-winning journalist, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and regularly at TomDispatch. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. His conversation with Bill Moyers about that book is here. His latest book is Tomorrow's Battlefield: US Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa. His website is NickTurse.com. You can follow him on Tumblr and on Facebook.
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