united nations this week about my situation. i think we are making it quite hard for the doj to successfully froms cute us without inflicting serious damage, serious political damage on itself, so i call on eric holder to do the right thing, dismiss this prosecution against and investigation against myself and my staff. it will proceed to a chilling effect on all other publishers involved in national security journalism. there seems to be an attempt, in fact, to split off national security journalists from other forms of journalism and severely marginalize them. it s not just happening to me. we can look at james risen, for example, with the new york times and his source. president obama has now initiated more espionage investigations and prosecutions than all previous presidents combined going back to 1917.