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But then a Faustian thing happened. This year, it was also revealed that the Obama administration had monitored the communications of Associated Press reporters on the suspicion that they were publishing leaks. For the first time, outrage arose: Liberal presidents were not, in Nixonian fashion, supposed to go after liberal reporters. The Obama administration did not object to AP reporters leaking classified information per se. Indeed, it had leaked the most intimate details of the cyberwar against Iran, the drone protocols and the Osama bin Laden raid to pet reporters such as the New York Times’ David Sanger and David Ignatius of The Washington Post. The election-year “exclusive” revelations of both usually portrayed Mr. Obama as an underappreciated, muscular command in chief. Read more: washingtontimes/news/2013/jul/5/the-press-and-its-faustian-deal/#ixzz2YMyMxjOF Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:21:05 +0000

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