The man the State Dept. wants silenced

[Glenn Greenwald is on vacation this week and three writers will be filling in for him]

By Jesselyn Radack

Today, I'm not writing about the Espionage Act being used to chill journalists and whistleblowers, but something equally as troubling: the assault on whistleblowers' First Amendment rights, illustrated by the creepy case of Peter Van Buren.

Van Buren is a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department who wrote a book critical of U.S. reconstruction projects in Iraq, We Meant Well: How...