Law & Order, Season 14

Elliott:
America deserves the truth, and that's what I try to report. But what happens when I do? They slam the lid down, ship me out and stick me in a room with 12 guys in uniforms who tell me that if I open my mouth again, I can kiss my career goodbye. We're entitled to a free press, but the government won't allow it.

McCoy:
That doesn't make what you did any less despicable.

Elliott:
You want despicable? Despicable is the Pentagon using some fake patriotism to eviscerate the First Amendment, and then using the media to spread that fake patriotism like manure in a garden! Look, you can arrest me, you can charge me with having myself shot, but we both know you can't prove any of it!

McCoy:
Or we can go to the press and expose you as a self-important fraud.

Elliott:
Sure you could. But without three confirmations, their lawyers won't let them print any of it. Three cheers for American democracy.