The White House keeps praising these journalists who are, who’ve been killed … 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?
- Jake Tapper, pressing White House press secretary Jay Carney on what one might consider to be inconsistency on the administration’s views of doing journalism in the interests of democracy.
Yahoo’s Cutline blog has video, and a full transcript.
[Update: 2/23/12 2:20 p.m.: forgot the hat tip! Thanks tcairwaves!]
