From The Denver Post:  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder hinted the Justice Department might not seek the jailing of New York Times reporter James Risen for refusing to identify a confidential source, a positive development in what appears to be this administration’s ongoing disregard for press freedom.

The Obama administration has aggressively worked to repress the work of journalists — from secretly acquiring Associated Press phone records to bringing criminal charges in eight cases involving leaks of confidential information, compared to three under all other administrations combined.

On Monday, the Supreme Court turned down an appeal from Risen, who sought to overturn a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that said he must comply with a subpoena seeking information about his source for his 2006 book, “State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.”

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