Obama’s legacy will be one of secrecy and hostility toward the press

[FakeNews]

On January 21, 2009, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum committing his administration “to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government . . . to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration.

Now eight years later, in the final overcast days of the Obama presidency, we are still waiting for his “new era of openness” to materialize.

So, too, is Reporters Without Borders (a.k.a. Reporters Sans Frontières, RSF), which currently ranks the United States 41st in its 2016 World Press Freedom Index — a compendium of 180 countries measured for their freedom of the press, the media, and information.

In a report to President Obama, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) voiced concerns that the administration’s “war on leaks . . . use of secret subpoenas” and “limitations on access to information” thwarted “a free and open discussion necessary to a democracy.”

To AP executive editor Kathleen Carroll, the CPJ report demonstrated the government’s ongoing threats to free and independent journalism in the United States, she urged “we must fight for those freedoms every day as the fog of secrecy descends on every level of government activity.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-bl...s-legacy-will-be-one-of-secrecy-and-hostility

 

[spacekowboy]

You're a fucking buffoon.

 

[Rightguide]

"Obama’s legacy will be one of secrecy and hostility toward the press

As well as the American majority.

 

[adrina]

45 has got you guys in a lather. They say offense is the best defense. You guys are sure trying to prove that one.

See, the thing is, there really isn't much of a defense for 45 - his ignorance and antics are really just that crazy. The only thing available is to go back to the standard "B-b-but Obama" refrain.

 

[nowisthetime]

So pathetic, so fucking pathetic.

But but Obama!

You share the same obsession of your Orange Fuhrer regarding Obama. You sheep just don't have a mind of your own. Whatever the Fuhrer thinks or says, you all hop.

You just can't fathom that this incredibly handsome, intelligent, classy, FAMILY MAN (who stayed faithful to his FIRST AND ONLY wife) has done a better job than your disgraceful trash of a president.

Stay pressed.

 

[Rightguide]

So pathetic, so fucking pathetic.

But but Obama!

You share the same obsession of your Orange Fuhrer regarding Obama. You sheep just don't have a mind of your own. Whatever the Fuhrer thinks or says, you all hop.

You just can't fathom that this incredibly handsome, intelligent, classy, FAMILY MAN (who stayed faithful to his FIRST AND ONLY wife) has done a better job than your disgraceful trash of a president.

Stay pressed.

Obama was an inept communist in mind and spirit posing as a Democrat. He hated traditional Americans and did all he could to bring them harm. He would have loved to march us all out onto the Northern Plains and put a bullet in our heads. Trump should probably have the ceiling in the White House residence scanned for cum stains put there in fevered ecstasy by Obama thinking about the pursuit of his final solution.

 

[Comentarista82]

Obama was an inept communist in mind and spirit posing as a Democrat. He hated traditional Americans and did all he could to bring them harm. He would have loved to march us all out onto the Northern Plains and put a bullet in our heads. Trump should probably have the ceiling in the White House residence scanned for cum stains put there in fevered ecstasy by Obama thinking about the pursuit of his final solution.

Thanks again for the comical conclusion, Rightguide. Don't know where you get it all, but you had me in tears!

 

[Rightguide]

Thanks again for the comical conclusion, Rightguide. Don't know where you get it all, but you had me in tears!

You're welcome.

 

[Rightguide]

So pathetic, so fucking pathetic.

But but Obama!

You share the same obsession of your Orange Fuhrer regarding Obama. You sheep just don't have a mind of your own. Whatever the Fuhrer thinks or says, you all hop.

You just can't fathom that this incredibly handsome, intelligent, classy, FAMILY MAN (who stayed faithful to his FIRST AND ONLY wife) has done a better job than your disgraceful trash of a president.

Stay pressed.

Nothing appears more pathetic than your apparent need to reinforce Obama's subversive totalitarianism and juvenile incompetence.