A quote from an interview with Jill Abramson, head honcho for news releases, I believe in New York. So lets see now...what did Blowbama say in his big speeches before his election? He will have a transparent administration?????????? Hmmmmmmmm.... Well, I would slightly like to interpret the question as How secretive is this White House? which I think is the most important question. I would say it is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering, and that includes — I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now, and I was Washington bureau chief of the Times during George W. Bushs first term. I dealt directly with the Bush White House when they had concerns that stories we were about to run put the national security under threat. But, you know, they were not pursuing criminal leak investigations. The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. Its on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with. And do you think this comes directly from the president? I would think that it would have to. I dont know that, but certainly enough attention has been focused on this issue that, if he departed from the policies of his government, I think wed know that at this point.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:06:09 +0000
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