Flashback: Obama prosecuted staff leakers, gave lie-detector tests, ‘paranoid’

[mystery-ak]

Flashback: Obama prosecuted staff leakers, gave lie-detector tests, ‘paranoid’
by Paul Bedard
 | September 07, 2018 09:52 AM

Should President Trump need a model to use to track down leakers inside his administration like the “anonymous” insider who challenged his authority in a New York Times op-ed, he need go no further back than the Obama administration that prosecuted leakers and shutout the media.

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.

USA Today said of the report, it “portrays an administration gripped by strict policies about information flow and paranoid about leaks across all executive branch departments.”

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.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/flashback-obama-prosecuted-staff-leakers-gave-lie-detector-tests-paranoid

[mystery-ak]

Obama, whose administration prosecuted and spied on reporters, claims Trump is very bad for criticizing newsrooms

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obama-whose-administration-prosecuted-and-spied-on-reporters-claims-trump-is-very-bad-for-criticizing-newsrooms

[aligncare]

Don’t know how much longer we can survive as one nation the media’s political double standard.

[DCPatriot]

I'm literally laughing out loud...visualizing how Donald Trump, the man, not the 'President' is going to respond to this.

I would say, "hold my beer"...and then go out into the Rose Garden with Melania and announce he is NOT running in 2020.

I'd do it, oh say...about noon Thursday.  Stock market implodes.

Then, over the weekend, I'd go back out into the Rose Garden with Melania and say, "We said that to prove to President Obama that he nor his policies have anything to do with the economy.  Just the prospect of what we've initiated these past two years...that it was coming to an end showed the American people, and the entire world who is responsible for this roaring economy."

...drop mike and go back inside.

[aligncare]

I'm literally laughing out loud...visualizing how Donald Trump, the man, not the 'President' is going to respond to this.

I would say, "hold my beer"...and then go out into the Rose Garden with Melania and announce he is NOT running in 2020.

I'd do it, oh say...about noon Thursday.  Stock market implodes.

Then, over the weekend, I'd go back out into the Rose Garden with Melania and say, "We said that to prove to President Obama that he nor his policies have anything to do with the economy.  Just the prospect of what we've initiated these past two years...that it was coming to an end showed the American people, and the entire world who is responsible for this roaring economy."

...drop mike and go back inside.

I like. Gave me a big smile thinking about it.