Quote of the Day: NYT reporter on secretive “control-freak” Obama admin
What we’ve known all along (bolded emphasis added by me ) – via Memeorandum:
Leonard Downie, a former executive editor of The Washington Post, is the Weil family professor of journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. This article is based on his report βThe Obama Administration and the Press,β forthcoming Thursday from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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After the New York Times publishedΒ a 2012 storyΒ by David E. Sanger about covert cyberattacks by the United States and Israel against Iranβs nuclear enrichment facilities, federal prosecutors and the FBI questioned scores of officials throughout the government who were identified in computer analyses of phone, text and e-mail records as having contact with Sanger.
βA 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,β Sanger said. As a result, longtime sources no longer talk to him. βThey tell me: βDavid, I love you, but donβt e-mail me. Letβs donβt chat until this blows over.β?β
Sanger, who has worked for the Times in Washington for two decades, said, βThis is most closed, control-freak administration Iβve ever covered.β
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