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Name:   phil The author of this post is registered as a member - Email Member
Subject:   Trump's America!
Date:   9/7/2018 11:23:14 AM (updated 9/7/2018 11:32:45 AM)

Of the 13 people who have been prosecuted under the Espionage Act for leaking secrets, eight were arrested under Obama's administration, according to Alexandra Ellerbeck, senior Americas and U.S. researcher with the Committee to Protect Journalists.

 

And prosecutors under Obama have spied on journalists and named a journalist an “unindicted co-conspirator,” according to the New York Times. Ellerbeck said that's just a step away from arresting a reporter for writing a story — and raises dangerous constitutional issues about freedom of the press.

 

According to reports at the time from even New York Times journalists, no administration was tougher on leakers and punishing to the media than Obama’s, a saga reinforced by reporters who have called Trump’s team more forthcoming.

Criticism of Obama’s attacks on the media and leakers did not just come in tweets and TV appearances by journalists but in an official report from the Committee to Protect Journalists, authored by former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr.

“This is the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered,” said David E. Sanger, veteran chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times, in the report.

It detailed prosecutions and even the use of lie-detectors on staffers. Some have encouraged Trump to use lie-detector tests on his staff, something he has so far ignored.

“The administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in the Washington Post’s investigation of Watergate. The 30 experienced Washington journalists at a variety of news organizations whom I interviewed for this report could not remember any precedent,” wrote Downie in the report that was criticized by Obama officials.

The campaign was so aggressive it even had a name, said the report: “The Insider Threat Program.”

Said the 2013 report, “The Insider Threat Program being implemented throughout the Obama administration to stop leaks—first detailed by the McClatchy newspapers’ Washington bureau in late June—has already ‘created internal surveillance, heightened a degree of paranoia in government and made people conscious of contacts with the public, advocates, and the press,’ said a prominent transparency advocate, Steven Aftergood, director of the Government Secrecy Project at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington.”

 

Employees at some 16 intelligence agencies faced questions about leaking during lie-detector tests.

“And the new inspector general for the intelligence community, with jurisdiction over all its agencies, would investigate leak cases that had not produced prosecutions by the Justice Department to determine what alternative action should be taken,” added the report.

 

Zieg Heil indeed Komrad Antifatech, you are late as usual to your own party.

 

 

Other messages in this thread:View Entire Thread
Trump's America! - architect - 9/6/2018 7:18:15 PM
     Trump's America! - phil - 9/7/2018 9:07:56 AM
          Trump's America! - architect - 9/7/2018 10:07:21 AM
               Trump's America! - phil - 9/7/2018 10:47:29 AM
     Trump's America! - au67 - 9/7/2018 9:13:41 AM
     Trump's America! - phil - 9/7/2018 11:23:14 AM
          Trump's America! - GoneFishin - 9/7/2018 11:43:44 AM
               Trump's America! - phil - 9/7/2018 11:56:43 AM
                    Trump's America! - GoneFishin - 9/7/2018 1:03:27 PM
                         Trump's America! - au67 - 9/7/2018 1:09:50 PM
                         Trump's America! - phil - 9/7/2018 2:04:50 PM
                              I suppose - architect - 9/7/2018 8:19:54 PM
                                   I suppose - CRD - 9/8/2018 4:31:47 AM
                                        CDR - GoneFishin - 9/8/2018 4:34:04 PM
                                             CDR - CRD - 9/8/2018 5:25:02 PM
                                                  CRD - GoneFishin - 9/8/2018 8:12:36 PM
                                                       I did realize you are a doctor from past comments, - architect - 9/9/2018 6:03:33 PM
                                                            Means and ends - lakngulf - 9/9/2018 6:18:47 PM
                                                                 Means and ends???? - architect - 9/9/2018 8:37:41 PM
                                                                      Means and ends???? - lakngulf - 9/9/2018 10:04:04 PM
                                                                      Means and ends???? - lakngulf - 9/9/2018 10:05:09 PM
                                                                      Means and ends???? - Buteye - 9/9/2018 10:13:27 PM
                                                            I did realize you are a doctor from past comments, - CRD - 9/9/2018 10:27:57 PM
                                                                 Well said..... - wix - 9/9/2018 10:41:10 PM
                                                                 I did realize you are a doctor from past comments, - architect - 9/9/2018 11:37:34 PM
                                                                      See, CRD..... - wix - 9/9/2018 11:46:51 PM
                                                                           See, CRD..... - CRD - 9/10/2018 7:14:50 AM
                                                                                See, CRD..... - Lifer - 9/10/2018 8:01:56 AM
                                   I suppose - phil - 9/10/2018 8:42:11 AM



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