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The President's Attack on Whistleblowers (Obama not Trump)
Posted on 9/24/19 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 9/24/19 at 4:47 pm
President Obama's attack on Whistleblowers to be clear.
Article from Jan 2017.
As our country takes stock of Obama’s tenure as commander-in-chief, the Press determined it appropriate to scrutinize his record on press freedoms and his ongoing and unprecedented federal crackdown of whistleblowers.
Obama’s record, here’s what history will show: In his eight years in office, the Obama Justice Department spearheaded eight Espionage Act prosecutions, more than all US administrations combined. Journalists were also caught in the crosshairs: Investigators sought phone records for Associated Press journalists, threatened to jail an investigative reporter for The New York Times, and named a Fox News reporter a co-conspirator in a leak case. In Texas, a journalist investigating private defense contractors became the focus of a federal prosecution and was initially charged for sharing a hyperlink containing hacked information that had already been made public.
“The absolute twisted passion with which the administration under Obama’s leadership has pursued whistleblowers is just appalling,” says Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and co-founder of RootsAction.org. “And as far as I can tell, the administration is unrepentant in that process. There’s just no other administration that comes close.”
And Trump? Even before his inauguration, Trump called on Congress to investigate press leaks regarding Russia’s alleged hacking of the Democratic and Republican national political committees as well as Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta during the presidential campaign.
LINK
Article from Jan 2017.
As our country takes stock of Obama’s tenure as commander-in-chief, the Press determined it appropriate to scrutinize his record on press freedoms and his ongoing and unprecedented federal crackdown of whistleblowers.
Obama’s record, here’s what history will show: In his eight years in office, the Obama Justice Department spearheaded eight Espionage Act prosecutions, more than all US administrations combined. Journalists were also caught in the crosshairs: Investigators sought phone records for Associated Press journalists, threatened to jail an investigative reporter for The New York Times, and named a Fox News reporter a co-conspirator in a leak case. In Texas, a journalist investigating private defense contractors became the focus of a federal prosecution and was initially charged for sharing a hyperlink containing hacked information that had already been made public.
“The absolute twisted passion with which the administration under Obama’s leadership has pursued whistleblowers is just appalling,” says Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and co-founder of RootsAction.org. “And as far as I can tell, the administration is unrepentant in that process. There’s just no other administration that comes close.”
And Trump? Even before his inauguration, Trump called on Congress to investigate press leaks regarding Russia’s alleged hacking of the Democratic and Republican national political committees as well as Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta during the presidential campaign.
LINK
This post was edited on 9/24/19 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 9/24/19 at 4:48 pm to BeNotDeceivedGal6_7
deflect much. this is about trump not Obama.
Posted on 9/24/19 at 4:55 pm to BeNotDeceivedGal6_7
Trump is YOUR problem now. Not Obama.
Posted on 9/24/19 at 5:14 pm to BeNotDeceivedGal6_7
Obama spied on everybody, divided, race-baited. Look up IG Gerald Walpin the first IG Obama fired because he filed a report not favorable to Obama and his wife at all.
Posted on 9/24/19 at 8:06 pm to BeNotDeceivedGal6_7
Good article. They should impeach Obama.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 9:00 pm to BeNotDeceivedGal6_7
Well he tried to murder one of them if that means anything.
This post was edited on 9/25/19 at 9:01 pm
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