MUST WE KEEP SECRETS? Constitution Day: The 1st Amendment, whistleblowers, and surveillance of newsrooms

Beginning in June, newspaper and online coverage of Edward Snowden’s leaks of National Security Agency documents exposed multiple layers of government spying on Americans. The NSA documents, published by the Guardian in Britain, the Washington Post, and others, revealed that the U.S. government: Hoards our phone call records, supposedly to catch terrorists, then uses those records to decide who is …