Lucy Dalglish Quotations

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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