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For the unlucky few, prescriptions become addictions /C1 TUESDAY TODAY CITRUS COUNTY & next morning HIGH 89 Partly sunny. LOW 40 percent chance of rain. 73 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com JUNE 11, 2013 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 118 ISSUE 308 Leak could bring decades in jail ON THE NET The revelations have reopened Official claims ‘huge, grave damage’ the post-Sept. 11 debate about indi- Edward Snowden speaks: vidual privacy concerns versus Associated Press Hong Kong, where he has taken http://tinyurl.com/nxuabnv heightened measures to protect the refuge. U.S. against terrorist attacks. The WASHINGTON — The man who Edward Snowden, 29, who said he NSA has asked the Justice Depart- gave classified documents to re- worked as a contractor at the Na- One gathers hundreds of millions of ment to conduct a criminal investi- porters, making public two sweep- tional Security Agency and the CIA, U.S. phone records while searching gation into the leaks. Government ing U.S. surveillance programs and allowed The Guardian and The for possible links to known terrorist lawyers are now “in the initial Edward touching off a national debate on Washington Post newspapers to re- targets abroad, and the second al- stages of an investigation into the Snowden privacy versus security, has re- veal his identity Sunday. lows the government to tap into nine unauthorized disclosure of classi- claims vealed his own identity. He risked Both papers have published a se- U.S. Internet companies to gather fied information by an individual surveillance decades in jail for the disclosures — ries of top-secret documents outlin- all Internet usage to detect suspi- programs open if the U.S. can extradite him from ing two NSA surveillance programs. cious behavior that begins overseas. See LEAK/ Page A2 to abuse. Medicine safer without paper, say docs MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle Dr. John Gelin, in his Floral City office, explains how new paperless computer technology is a safer way to practice medicine. Citrus Memorial Health System institutes $4.7 million program to digitize workflow MIKE WRIGHT So when the hospital started mov- kicked off its $4.7 million Cerner pro- electronic health-record technology. Staff writer ing into the 21st century with paper- gram on May 1. Every patient-related Cerner and a team of CMHS em- less technology, he wasn’t exactly aspect from admissions to discharge ployees, including Dr. Gelin, spent Dr. John Gelin’s association with jumping for joy. is now computerized. The hospital is two months at the start of the year Citrus Memorial hospital spans four “This is probably the most radical virtually paperless. testing the programs in various sce- decades, so he knows a thing or two change in my practice since I started CMHS has the potential to earn narios to work out the bugs. Then in- about doing things the old way. here,” said Dr. Gelin, who runs the back $5 million over five years from formation technology director Tyler He’s used to jotting down prescrip- Citrus Primary Care office in Floral the Center for Medicare and Medi- Whetstone and other IT specialists tions and medical tests on forms and City. caid by meeting a number of objec- telling nurses what so-and-so needs. Citrus Memorial Health System tives in the “meaningful use” of See PROGRAM/ Page A5 Public hearing set for Report: Man orders dog to attack deputy Andy Cox in a doorway — catch- mine near cemetery Two arrested ing his foot under the door — as he tried to enter the residence, CHRIS VAN ORMER property that surrounds a his- A.B. SIDIBE according to a report by the Cit- Staff writer toric cemetery. Staff Writer rus County Sheriff ’s Office. Although historic, Red Charles Winston McCray, 38, Following a special mas- Level Cemetery, a 2.75-acre Two men are in custody after and Dwann D. McCray, 31, Crys- ter’s report in May, Citrus parcel in the midst of the pro- one of the men reportedly turned tal River, are facing charges of County commissioners have posed mining area, is still in Charles his 65-pound pit bull loose on aggravated assault/battery on a Dwann set a public hearing Thursday use, and families who have McCray deputies twice as they tried to law enforcement officer. Dwann McCray to finalize whether a limerock charged with serve a warrant on Sunday. faces multiple mine can be developed on See MINE/ Page A5 assault. The men also jammed Deputy See ARRESTS/ Page A2 charges. Classifieds . .C9 Community . .C6 INDEX Lottery Numbers . .B3 Obituaries . .A6 Comics . .C8 Editorial . .A8 Lottery Payouts . .B3 TV Listings . .C7 Crossword . .C7 Entertainment . .A4 Horoscope . .A4 Movies . .C8 000F4JV A2 TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE ■ PRISM in the LEAK spotlight/Page A10. Continued from Page A1 disrupt a 2009 plot to bomb with authorized access,” New York City’s subways said Nanda Chitre, Justice and played a role in the Department spokeswoman. case against an American President Barack who scouted targets in Obama said the programs Mumbai, India, before a are authorized by Congress deadly terrorist attack and subject to strict super- there in 2008. Feinstein vision of a secret court, and spoke on ABC’s “This Director of National Intel- Week.” ligence James Clapper Clapper decried the rev- said they do not target U.S. elation of the intelligence- citizens. gathering programs as But Snowden claims the reckless and said it has programs are open to done “huge, grave damage.” abuse. The spokesman for the “Any analyst at any time Director of National Intel- can target anyone. Any se- ligence Shawn Turner said lector. Anywhere,” Snow- intelligence officials are den said in a video on the “currently reviewing the Guardian’s website. “I, sit- damage that has been ting at my desk, had the done by these recent dis- authority to wiretap any- closures.” one, from you or your ac- The disclosures come as countant to a federal judge the White House deals to even the president if I with managing fallout had a personal email.” from revelations that it se- Some lawmakers have cretly seized telephone Associated Press expressed similar con- records of journalists at Demonstrators hold signs supporting whistleblower Edward Snowden Monday in New York’s Union Square Park. cerns about the wide The Associated Press and reach of the surveillance. Fox News. of China, is partly au- security reasons. done against them,” Snow- he was not going to hide. “I expect the govern- Snowden said he was a tonomous and has a West- “The government could den told the Guardian. “Allowing the U.S. gov- ment to protect my privacy. former technical assistant ern-style legal system that subject him to a 10 or 20 The government could ernment to intimidate its It feels like that isn’t for the CIA and a current is a legacy from the terri- year penalty for each also make an argument people with threats of re- what’s been happening,” employee of defense con- tory’s past as a British count,” with each docu- that the NSA leaks have taliation for revealing said Sen. Mark Udall, D- tractor Booz Allen Hamil- colony. A U.S.-Hong Kong ment leaked considered a aided the enemy — as mil- wrongdoing is contrary to Colo., a member of the ton, which released a extradition treaty has separate charge, Zaid said. itary prosecutors have the public interest,” he Senate Intelligence Com- statement Sunday con- worked smoothly in the Snowden told the claimed against Army Pvt. said in the interview pub- mittee. “Again, there’s a firming he had been a con- past. Hong Kong extra- Guardian newspaper he Bradley Manning, who lished Sunday. Snowden line, but to me, the scale of tractor with them in dited three al-Qaeda sus- believes the government faces life in prison under said he would “ask for asy- it and the fact the law was Hawaii for less than three pects to the U.S. in 2003, could try to charge him military law if convicted lum from any countries being secretly interpreted months, and promising to for example. with treason under the Es- for releasing a trove of that believe in free speech has long concerned me,” work with investigators. But the treaty comes pionage Act, but Zaid said classified documents and oppose the victimiza- he said Sunday on CNN, Snowden could face with important exceptions. that would require the through the Wikileaks tion of global privacy.” adding that at the same many years in prison for Key provisions allow a re- government to prove he website. Snowden told The time, he abhors leaks. releasing classified infor- quest to be rejected if it is had intent to betray the “They could say the rev- Guardian he lacked a high Senate intelligence com- mation if he is successfully deemed to be politically United States, whereas he elation of the (NSA) pro- school diploma and served mittee chairman, Democ- extradited from Hong motivated or that the sus- publicly made it clear he grams could instruct in the U.S. Army until he rat Dianne Feinstein of Kong, according to Mark pect would not receive a did this to spur debate. people to change tactics,” was discharged because of California, contends the Zaid, a national security fair trial. Beijing may also “My sole motive is to in- Zaid said. That could add an injury, and later worked surveillance does not in- lawyer who represents block an extradition of form the public as to that more potential jail time to as a security guard with the fringe on U.S.

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