Ed Morrissey
Hot Air
October 6, 2013
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:
“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.’ ”
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
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