AP: Journalist Glenn Greenwald to Investigate the NSA's Role in Washington's Assassination Program

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34. Are you seriously telling us you

don't know the nature of investigative journalism?
Reporters don't get warrants. They can't subpoena information or or compel testimony. You're thinking of the police. That's why if you watch The Newsroom, you never see Mac or Will tell their reporters to get warrants, or "Make sure you get a judge's signature by 1PM so we can get it on the show tonight."
They don't have to. They are not government agents.
Would you say that Woodward and Bernstein were dirty, no good spies because of what they got the information about the Watergate hotel? There was a time that reporters actually did their job and reported to the American people things that the government would rather get out.
If they report on something that sparks an independent government investigation and people are in danger of going to jail, THEN warrants will be issued for more information. But reporters are not spies or cops. These men are doing their jobs.