Obama Pursuing Leakers Sends Warning to Whistle-Blowers

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" Eric Holder, attorney general under President Barack Obama, has prosecuted more government officials for alleged leaks under the World War I-era Espionage Act than all his predecessors combined, including law-and-order Republicans John Mitchell, Edwin Meese and John Ashcroft.

The indictments of six individuals under that spy law have drawn criticism from those who say the president’s crackdown chills dissent, curtails a free press and betrays Obama’s initial promise to “usher in a new era of open government.”



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Not sure what the issue is here. The article says it extended whistler blower protections while cracking down on those leaking classified secrets.

From same article:

"The president’s openness pledge is also undermined by a recent Bloomberg News analysis, which showed that 19 of 20 cabinet-level agencies disobeyed the Freedom of Information Act requiring the disclosure of public documents. In all, just eight of the 57 federal agencies met Bloomberg’s FOIA requests for top officials’ travel costs within the 20-day window required by the Act.

The White House disputes the notion that the president hasn’t kept his promise of transparency.
 
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Most transpar--- oh, who are we kidding? Obama keeps this up and he'll start drawing comparisons to Wilson instead of W.
During the last administration, whistle blowers were heroes. Wonder what changed.
 
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From same article:

"The president’s openness pledge is also undermined by a recent Bloomberg News analysis, which showed that 19 of 20 cabinet-level agencies disobeyed the Freedom of Information Act requiring the disclosure of public documents. In all, just eight of the 57 federal agencies met Bloomberg’s FOIA requests for top officials’ travel costs within the 20-day window required by the Act.

The White House disputes the notion that the president hasn’t kept his promise of transparency.

That's it? I thought it was about whislter blowers and security leaks, not how fast they or don't reply to FIOA requests.
 
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