The Obama administration and its war on whistleblowers

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Watchdog.org:

You know things are getting pretty bad for press freedom when even establishment media bastions like the New York Times are complaining about it.

 

In one poignant incident last spring, for instance, Times reporter James Risen made himself inescapably clear when he said the White House is “the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation.”

 

Risen, who had been fighting — and recently lost — a court battle to protect a confidential source from being forcibly revealed, clearly had foreign policy and national defense in mind. However, the problem is not limited to matters of security. Risen’s case is only one example among many of the Obama administration’s ramped-up campaign against whistleblowers across America.

 

In a recent blog post, Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee listed eight ways that the Obama administration is blocking information, which in turn are hampering efforts by reporters to find the data and sources needed to hold the government accountable.