The most notable, and welcome, example of this came late last month when she noted President Obama's "disconnect between words and actions on free speech" given his administration's flagrant attacks on journalism by its prosecution of whistleblowers, as well as its penchant for secrecy and other acts that mock the first amendment.
There are two lines of attack on her journalism.
Daleiden characterized Tuesday's search as "an attack on citizen journalism".
And in Washington, the Obama administration continues to escalate its attacks on whistleblowers, journalism and civil liberties.
Jennifer Robinson, a London-based lawyer for WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organisation that received more than 700,000 documents from Manning and published many of them on the internet, said that the soldier's trial was at the centre of Obama's war on whistleblowers and the press and was a direct attack on national security journalism and the first amendment.
For every complaint about some noxious shock jock's rant, there's sure to be a coordinated attack on "liberal advocacy journalism".
Concerns about the latter saw the left-wing documentary maker Robert Greenwald, best-known for his attack on Fox News, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, attacking the script's most questionable scenes on his website, Stopkennedysmears.com.
Unfortunately, this flood of startups and new ventures has also unleashed a direct attack on the integrity of journalism, namely its function as an objective source of news.
Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: "We are delighted that common sense has prevailed and the Met has woken up to the fact that they cannot get away with such flagrant abuse of the Official Secrets Act.This was an outrageous attack on a central tenet of journalism – the protection of our sources.
