Obama’s Favorite Law Professor | The American Spectator
Eric Posner hates the First Amendment.
LYNDEN, Washington -- Eric Posner hates freedom of speech.
The University of Chicago law prof made this clear in an article for Slate in 2012 titled “The World Doesn’t Love the First Amendment.” “Americans,” Posner wrote, “need to learn that the rest of the world -- and not just Muslims -- see no sense in the First Amendment,” and realize that “they might have a point.”
Posner, son of Judge Richard Posner and a former classmate of President Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, likened the First Amendment to a “dear old uncle who enacted heroic deeds in his youth but on occasion says embarrassing things about taboo subjects in his decline.”
Now Posner has weighed in on freedom of the press. Turns out he’s against that, too.
In the case in question, New York Times reporter James Risen is being ordered by the federal government to name his source for a story about an attempt by the CIA to scuttle Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
This is part of the Obama administration’s alleged “war on whistleblowers.” Risen is being ordered to testify in the government’s case against former CIA hand James Sterling.
Posner opines, again in Slate, “If Risen must testify, Sterling will probably go to jail, and maybe other sources will not talk to Risen or other reporters. Too bad…”
It must be nice to have tenure.
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