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NY Times Executive Editor: This Is Most Secretive White House I've Ever Dealt With
Birther Report
1/23/2014
Excerpt:
New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson: This Is Most Secretive White House I've Ever Dealt With
Politico reports what we've been reporting for years:
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Birther Report
1/23/2014
Excerpt:
New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson: This Is Most Secretive White House I've Ever Dealt With
Politico reports what we've been reporting for years:
New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson says that President Obama's White House is the "most secretive White House" that she's covered during her long tenure as a political journalist.
"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. Bush's first term," Abramson told Al Jazeera America in an interview that will air on Sunday.
"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," she continued. "The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with." [...] - More @ Politico.
"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. Bush's first term," Abramson told Al Jazeera America in an interview that will air on Sunday.
"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," she continued. "The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with." [...] - More @ Politico.
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://www.birtherreport.com/2014/01...s-is-most.html