1.0 link 23767 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-feige/inside-the-politics-of-pr_b_23767.html A few weeks ago, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled that statements made in the workplace may not actually be protected by the first amendment. The ruling has been criticized as a serious setback for whistleblowers, and it may well be. But Garcetti v. Ceballos says something else too -- about the down and dirty nature of criminal law and the terrifying politics of prosecution. Paradoxically, this recent free speech case, as much as any other, explains one of the...

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