(1/17 🧵) Here's my further analysis of the recent journalist arrests, for those not inclined to hunt down my posts elsewhere. While this is a political flash point, I do not believe it is a partisan issue. It is part of a pattern perpetrated by, and that hurts, both parties:
(2/17) What one party does to shrink the space for newsgathering is a loaded gun the next party can use. I’ve always covered this as a bipartisan problem—here I am in 2020 reporting on a DOJ whistleblower and noting that going after reporters' sources was a wider trend:
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