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As alleged threats to Bob Woodward and others show, Obama administration doesn't like to be challenged by reporters
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The witness stand Steve Hayes giant says Steve about who do I get another strong.
Well look at me if the question is does this White House is the Obama White House bully reporters I think the answer is clearly yes and we heard this from other people who weighed in on this today as as Bob Woodward said he was flooded with emails.
From reporters who are sharing their tails a lot of reporters did that publicly run 48 from National Journal said he actually went so far as to cut off.
A source of his because the source had become so aggressive -- and blustery.
But it does this email exchange between.
I ordered in Gene Sperling rise to low level of threat I don't think so I'm -- you behind the emails it's certainly doesn't sound like a threat to me.
I don't think and I think Bob was scared and -- I think obviously word threat he said he you know you will -- when he said but the what I thought this instance Bob May -- let you can't -- Bob Woodward he can't threaten you need you -- USEC is scary guys.
But -- yeah journalists who come to town here.
And are trying to cover the White House -- do I think and when starting these people being aggressive and abuse of and you know I know -- we get into fights -- -- the -- with the subjects -- -- from from time to -- -- others adjusting its transparency.
And you're suggesting is should just lay up next what is just like -- who was just laying out the fact push start sequester and got the White House mad because he corrected them when they got it wrong.
Yeah look I mean I think the white hasn't been very critical of Bob -- and I don't think that the facts from the White House decide.
In this instance so in that sense I think I think Woodward is right and he's right to make the case city get and he was there he reported for his book.
The price of politics he was he was in the room and he took you in the room if you read those passages.
Talking to everybody there and the question the central substantive complaint that he makes his.
That the White House is pretending that they that the president wasn't behind the sequester when in fact it was an idea that was generated by the administration and I think he's on solid ground with that.
He says he never used the word threat that was clearly the implication of the interview he gave with the Politico reporters in with Wolf Blitzer and the whole point.
Of the interview he gave was to say basically the White House is out of line in doing this to me.
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House and senate Republicans on Capitol Hill before.
The the -- in July 2011 when there was all this talk about the debt ceiling and the super committee in the sequester I was very skeptical that that was gonna lead to a good place I remember having very heated conversations with staffers.
Republican staffers in both.
The house and then the senate -- suggesting to me that I just didn't understand that I really didn't know what has -- it was talking about and I -- make a fool myself I wanna MacKey said the things that I believe.
I don't think could be I understand that this White House is pretended to be quite transparent and so when they're throwing rub elbows around us exactly transparent when they're trying to intimidate me that I threatening but -- trying to intimidate you trying to push up the story.
Tried to intimidate and there's no question would be the most interesting thing about this whole entire episode to me is that the White House feels that they need to manipulate the media mussina love fest from the Washington press corps with this White House.
For the better part of four -- half years now the fact that they think that they need to -- suggests that they.
Understand that this fight over the sequestered spending and the size and scope of government is a big fight this potentially damaging to the president.
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