The Obama administration’s record number of prosecutions for leakers may not be attributed solely to their zeal for secret government but rather more to the ease with which the administration can catch leakers with better surveillance and the availability of electronic records.
A journalist at the 14th annual National Freedom of Information Day conference said if he were a government employee with information on wrong doing, he would never use the telephone or e-mail to contact the news media. -db
From the First Amendment Center, March 16, 2012, by Nikki Troia.