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*'''May.''' Former CIA employee Jeffrey Sterling convicted on espionage charges for leaks to ''New York Times'' reporter James Risen. ''[[The Nation]]'' says of the case,<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/</ref>
*'''May.''' Former CIA employee Jeffrey Sterling convicted on espionage charges for leaks to ''New York Times'' reporter James Risen. ''[[The Nation]]'' says of the case,<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/</ref>
{{Quotebox|standard media narratives about Risen and Sterling have skipped over deep patterns of government retaliation against recalcitrant journalists and whistleblowers. Those patterns are undermining press freedom, precluding the informed consent of the governed and hiding crucial aspects of US foreign policy. The recent announcement of Eric Holder’s resignation as attorney general has come after nearly five years of the Obama administration extending and intensifying the use of the Justice Department for retribution against investigative journalism and whistleblowing.}}
{{Quotebox|standard media narratives about Risen and Sterling have skipped over deep patterns of government retaliation against recalcitrant journalists and whistleblowers. Those patterns are undermining press freedom, precluding the informed consent of the governed and hiding crucial aspects of US foreign policy. The recent announcement of Eric Holder’s resignation as attorney general has come after nearly five years of the Obama administration extending and intensifying the use of the Justice Department for retribution against investigative journalism and whistleblowing.}}
===August 2015===
*'''12 August.''' In Sweden, a woman and her son are beheaded in an IKEA parking lot by angry Muslims who just left a government immigration office where one of them was informed he would be deported.<ref>[http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/08/12/sweden-new-photo-of-what-appears-to-be-a-beheading-victim-in-ikea-indicates-that-the-asylum-seeking-knife-attackers-were-likely-muslims/]</ref> The beheading was reported in the United States by CBS News as "a knife attack."
===September 2015===
===September 2015===