NYT reporter: Obama admin “most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered” | |
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Useless Cookie Eater User ID: 29696048 United States 10/05/2013 07:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to hotair.com] Remember when the media rushed to talk about transparency in the Barack Obama “Hope and Change” era? Good times, good times. Leonard Downie, who once worked as the executive editor of the Washington Post and wrote a novel about Washington corruption and the Iraq War, finds a bigger and non-fictional problem in the successor to George W. Bush. Downie gives the Post a preview of his report from the Committee to Protect Journalists which outlines the Obama war on reporters and their sources: Quoting: Uncle Fuck Stick “A memo went out from the chief of staff a year ago to White House employees and the intelligence agencies that told people to freeze and retain any e-mail, and presumably phone logs, of communications with me,” Sanger said. As a result, longtime sources no longer talk to him. “They tell me: ‘David, I love you, but don’t e-mail me. Let’s don’t chat until this blows over.’ ” Sanger, who has worked for the Times in Washington for two decades, said, “This is most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.” Many leak investigations include lie-detector tests for government officials with More at link 4,7,8 and 10 clearly apply here. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1044117 United States 10/05/2013 07:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree it seems like the time is getting ripe for our "civil unrest" period, and the crackdown on dissent that we have been anticipating. There's been a lot of "call to resistance" threads popping up on GLP lately. People are getting pumped up, but the Admin has yet to show it's hand. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 47815920 United States 10/05/2013 07:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Exactly, and it takes 2/3's to pass the Senate. We need the Senate back by a super majority to take this usurper down. Sadly, I do not think there are enough intelligent and informed voters who will vote to kick the Senate progressives out. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 46035144 United States 10/05/2013 07:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This fuckwad is clueless as to the core of the American spirit. We will nor lie down. We will not succumb. We will not surrender our freedom. Does he and others not realize this? Are they so arrogant that they believe they can overcome this? They cannot. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 46035144 United States 10/05/2013 07:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This fuckwad is clueless as to the core of the American spirit. We will nor lie down. We will not succumb. We will not surrender our freedom. Does he and others not realize this? Are they so arrogant that they believe they can overcome this? They cannot. |
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