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Journalists and their rights
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Who is a journalist? What rules should protect reporters from excessive government efforts to track down their sources and compel their testimony in legal proceedings?Those questions have taken center stage in Washington. They started emerging in May, with revelations the Obama administration secretly sought the phone records of Associated Press reporters who had broken a story about a terrorist conspiracy in Yemen.