Stephanie
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should be called the most secretive, dishonest with information and vicious in using their power over people
lots of link in article at site
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posted at 8:01 pm on May 26, 2013 by Allahpundit
The emerging details of these and other cases show just how wide a net the Obama administration has cast in its investigations into disclosures of government secrets, querying hundreds of officials across the federal government and even some of their foreign counterparts.
The result has been an unprecedented six prosecutions and many more inquiries using aggressive legal and technical tactics. A vast majority of those questioned were cleared of any leaking
Some officials are now declining to take calls from certain reporters, concerned that any contact may lead to investigation. Some complain of being taken from their offices to endure uncomfortable questioning. And the government officials typically must pay for lawyers themselves, unlike reporters for large news organizations whose companies provide legal representation.
For every reporter that is dealing with this, there are hundreds of national security officials who feel under siege without benefit of a corporate legal department or a media megaphone for support, said a former Obama administration official. There are lots of people in the government spending lots of money on legal fees.
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Caught up in a public relations crisis, White House officials have drawn open a few curtains, revealing once-secret documents and answering queries that they would ordinarily have dismissed with an eye roll.
But the sharing has been selective and done under duress. It has come in fits and starts to an administration that promised to be the most open in American history.
Many allies of the president think that with this burst of sunshine he has arrested the run of bad news and taken charge of the narrative. Even in some Obama-friendly quarters, though, the sharing is seen as too little and too late, and all the more disappointing for the high hopes Obama had set for transparency at the outset of his presidency
The White House has struggled to give accurate information on a timely basis, said Martha Joynt Kumar, a political science professor at Towson University who studies the White House and its relationship with media.
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lots of link in article at site
SNIP:
posted at 8:01 pm on May 26, 2013 by Allahpundit
The emerging details of these and other cases show just how wide a net the Obama administration has cast in its investigations into disclosures of government secrets, querying hundreds of officials across the federal government and even some of their foreign counterparts.
The result has been an unprecedented six prosecutions and many more inquiries using aggressive legal and technical tactics. A vast majority of those questioned were cleared of any leaking
Some officials are now declining to take calls from certain reporters, concerned that any contact may lead to investigation. Some complain of being taken from their offices to endure uncomfortable questioning. And the government officials typically must pay for lawyers themselves, unlike reporters for large news organizations whose companies provide legal representation.
For every reporter that is dealing with this, there are hundreds of national security officials who feel under siege without benefit of a corporate legal department or a media megaphone for support, said a former Obama administration official. There are lots of people in the government spending lots of money on legal fees.
***
Caught up in a public relations crisis, White House officials have drawn open a few curtains, revealing once-secret documents and answering queries that they would ordinarily have dismissed with an eye roll.
But the sharing has been selective and done under duress. It has come in fits and starts to an administration that promised to be the most open in American history.
Many allies of the president think that with this burst of sunshine he has arrested the run of bad news and taken charge of the narrative. Even in some Obama-friendly quarters, though, the sharing is seen as too little and too late, and all the more disappointing for the high hopes Obama had set for transparency at the outset of his presidency
The White House has struggled to give accurate information on a timely basis, said Martha Joynt Kumar, a political science professor at Towson University who studies the White House and its relationship with media.
all of it here
Quotes of the day « Hot Air
