[marshray]

I'm not from the Northeastern US, but it seems to me like it might not really be the old 9/11 and Boston traumas. Surveillance and harassment of reporters certainly didn't start then.

For example, in 1971 the Nixon administration broke into leak-conduit reporter Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in an attempt to obtain medical files with which to publicly discredit him.

Of course, recent administrations have pushed for and obtained laws requiring that all medical records be stored electronically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Fielding_break...

[dkarl]

Daniel Ellsberg turned himself over to the authorities, was released on bail, and saw the charges against him thrown out. Today I imagine he would be held indefinitely in degrading conditions, brutally interrogated, and sentenced to decades in prison if the government ever bothered bringing him to trial.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/09/h...