[speechlesstx]

Did you know the administration of utmost transparency is aggressively trying to silence whistle-blowers? The Obama regime has used the Espionage Act 6 times thus far to try and suppress information that Americans should know.

Jake Tapper takes Jay Carney to task for "aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the United States by using the Espionage Act to take whistleblowers to court".

TAPPER: The White House keeps praising these journalists who are — who’ve been killed –

CARNEY: I don’t know about “keep” — I think -

TAPPER: You’ve done it, Vice President Biden did it in a statement. How does that square with the fact that this administration has been so aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the United States by using the Espionage Act to take whistleblowers to court?

You’re — currently I think that you’ve invoked it the sixth time, and before the Obama administration, it had only been used three times in history. You’re — this is the sixth time you’re suing a CIA officer for allegedly providing information in 2009 about CIA torture. Certainly that’s something that’s in the public interest of the United States. The administration is taking this person to court. There just seems to be disconnect here. You want aggressive journalism abroad; you just don’t want it in the United States.

CARNEY: Well, I would hesitate to speak to any particular case, for obvious reasons, and I would refer you to the Department of Justice for more on that.

I think we absolutely honor and praise the bravery of reporters who are placing themselves in extremely dangerous situations in order to bring a story of oppression and brutality to the world. I think that is commendable, and it’s certainly worth noting by us. And as somebody who knew both Anthony and Marie, I particularly appreciate what they did to bring that story to the American people.

I — as for other cases, again, without addressing any specific case, I think that there are issues here that involve highly sensitive classified information, and I think that, you know, those are — divulging or to — divulging that kind of information is a serious issue, and it always has been.

TAPPER: So the truth should come out abroad; it shouldn’t come out here?

CARNEY: Well, that’s not at all what I’m saying, Jake, and you know it’s not. Again, I can’t — specific –

TAPPER: That’s what the Justice Department’s doing.

CARNEY: Well, you’re making a judgment about a broad array of cases, and I can’t address those specifically.

TAPPER: It’s also the judgment that a lot of whistleblowers’ organizations and good government groups are making as well.

CARNEY: Not one that I’m going to make.

-Jake Tapper

Of course the media has been largely complicit in this. We don't need to know about any real scandals in the Obama regime, like Fast & Furious and Solyndra - the elite media has largely buried that news or spun it as no big deal.

But then what should we expect from a regime that wanted to make lying to us legal?

[NeedKarma]

... a regime that wanted to make lying to us legal?

That is Fox News.

[tomder55]

The dinosaurs carried water for the President in 2008 ;they have continued to do so through his term ,and they will be the compliant useful-idiots throughout the 2012 campaign.Jake Tapper may be a rare exception ,although I've yet to read or hear his multi segment multi day expose on the Oboma contempt to all things 1st Amendment.

[paraclete]

Lying to you is just polispeak

[speechlesstx]

That is Fox News.

Nice try, but it's just as I said. I like to base my arguments on facts, not fiction. The Obama regime did try to make federal lying legal.

[NeedKarma]

Nice try, but it's just as I said. I like to base my arguments on facts, not fiction.

What I wrote was based on fact: Fox News gets okay to misinform public, court ruling | Media Reform | CeaseSPIN.org

No need to apoligize.

[speechlesstx]

Fox is not our current "regime".

No need to apologize.

[NeedKarma]

Well they are the ones who choose your leaders. :D

[speechlesstx]

More Obama transparency problems, where are the missing Inspectors General?

Obama and the case of the missing watchdogs

Here are some facts: According to a new tracker published by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), there are now 12 IG vacancies, including the Department of State (vacant for nearly 1,500 days), the Department of Justice (nearly 400 days), the Department of Homeland Security (more than 360 days), and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (nearly 400 days).

And don't say Republican obstructionism. They can't confirm if the IGs aren't nominated.