Ed Morrissey:
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.’ ”
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 access to the information at issue. “Reporters are interviewing sources through intermediaries now,” Barr told me, “so the sources can truthfully answer on polygraphs that they didn’t talk to reporters.”
The investigations have been “a kind of slap in the face” for reporters and their sources, said Smith of the Center for Public Integrity. “It means you have to use extraordinary measures for contacts with officials speaking without authorization.”
Amusingly, Downie posits this question at the end of the essay:
Will Obama recognize that all this threatens his often-stated but unfulfilled goal of making government more transparent and accountable? None of the Washington news media veterans I talked to were optimistic.
Yet they still all kneel at the altar of this monster.
Amazing how like the KGB this leftist administration is….
Most inept, most corrupt, most hateful
Anti Americanism at it’s worse.
If the Obama Admin didn’t have so much to hide it wouldn’t need to be the “most closed, control-freak administration David Sanger ever covered”
That joke on Jimmy Fallon’s show about how very gay Obama is has to be a big part of the need for secrecy.
He certainly can’t throw a ball.
And everyone knows he can’t play golf, either.
No one does 27 holes of golf, that’s a cover story for hanging with his gay buddies and getting high.
The MSM is a perfect example of “Useful Idiots.” They are so blinded by their adoration for their socialist messiah that, like a perpetual domestic abuse victim they will take the hits and keep telling everyone what a wonderful, loving person their abuser is.
Jimmy Carter now looks great!!!!!