Montecresto
Senior Member
David Sanger, the New York Times reporter who has spent two decades reporting in Washington, says that the Obama administration is the "most closed, control-freak administration" he's ever covered.
That criticism comes from a forthcoming report on U.S. press freedom written by former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie, Jr., in which he claims that national security reporters face "vast and unprecedented challenges" as a result of government surveillance, secrecy and "sophisticated control" of the news media's access to government.
In that report, which Downie previewed in a Post article on Friday, Sanger says that White House employees and intelligence agency staff were specifically told in 2012 to freeze and retain any correspondence they'd had with him. That directive came after Sanger published a 2012 story about U.S. and Israeli cyberattacks against Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media...losed-controlfreak-administration-174362.html
That criticism comes from a forthcoming report on U.S. press freedom written by former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie, Jr., in which he claims that national security reporters face "vast and unprecedented challenges" as a result of government surveillance, secrecy and "sophisticated control" of the news media's access to government.
In that report, which Downie previewed in a Post article on Friday, Sanger says that White House employees and intelligence agency staff were specifically told in 2012 to freeze and retain any correspondence they'd had with him. That directive came after Sanger published a 2012 story about U.S. and Israeli cyberattacks against Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media...losed-controlfreak-administration-174362.html
