Honesty is very important to law enforcement. Police officers routinely testify in court, and their word often outweighs that of a defendant, especially in cases where the officer is the only one to see the offense. So you would think that it would be easy to fire a police officer who lied to their superiors.

Nope.

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Andy Carvin is a typical DC resident. He works for NPR, and when trying out a new camera he wanted to go to one of DC's most spacious and beautiful public buildings: Union Station. Problem is, security guards at Union Station seem to have missed First Amendment day, and have a tendancy to harass photographers like Andy Carvin, as he wrote about in his blog.
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Today, Apple and ThinkSecret (www.thinksecret.com) agreed that Apple would drop its lawsuit against the news site in exchange for the news site's closure. As the First Amendment typically protects journalists from being forced to reveal their sources (which Apple was trying to force ThinkSecret to do) and Apple had already lost several motions on the matter, it looked as though ThinkSecret might win. But the owner of ThinkSecret, low on funds and wanting to move on with life, opted to cave to Apple rather than fight on.

And so, it's proven: if you have money, you win, even if you're wrong.

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