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.
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.
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.