James Rosen, of Fox News
James Rosen, the Fox News reporter who was targeted by the Justice Department and placed under secret watch for his newsgathering activities about North Korea – and who has now raised another White House red flag for his reporting about a State Department edit of a video clip that caught the government in a lie – said in an interview this week the Obama administration is little more than “authoritarian” in its pursuit of information leakers.
Specifically, he said the present White House pursues whistleblowers and information leakers as if they were possessed of an “authoritarian impulse,” unlike what he’s seen in any other administration, Business Insider reported.
And it’s gotten very personal, Rosen said.
“There’s no doubt that the Obama administration has maintained an animus towards Fox News and specifically towards me across the two terms,” he said.
He went on, speaking of the aftermath of Watergate: “I can tell you as an objective fact that the conduct of the Obama administration, from the president on down towards Fox News, has far exceeded anything that Richard Nixon ever did to the Washington Post.”
Rosen, just a month ago, reported that a fiery exchange he engaged in with the then-spokesperson for the State Department had been scrubbed from the video of the briefing that was posted on the agency’s YouTube page. During the exchange, Rosen was told the administration had not engaged in any behind-scenes talks with Iran about the nuclear treaty – a statement that later conflicted with emerged facts. The The State Department called the edit of that particular portion of the press conference a “glitch,” then later admitted it had been purposely edited.
On that, Rosen told Business Insider: “It’s not often in the annals of a modern presidency where an administration is forced to admit publicly that it has sought to censor the record of its public briefings. To mess with that, to tamper with that archive, is a very serious offense.”
Rosen, who’s covered Washington for years and written a book on Watergate, was the the journalist who sparked a media backlash against the White House in mid-2013, after it was revealed the Justice Department had investigated his newsgathering activities as criminal in nature because his reporting exposed certain specifics about North Korea the White House wanted to keep quiet.
Then, Fox News executive Michael Clemente said in a statement about the revelations of Justice Department surveillance on Rosen: “It is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend [Rosen’s] right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press.”
Meanwhile, a State Department officials announced this week the agency is going to try and identify the source of the edited video.
“We’re going to continue to look at additional troves of information in an effort to fine out, again, wjatt happened,” said the official, to Business Insider. “That is basically because the secretary said he wants to dive deeper into this, look more into what happened, and try to get to the bottom of what happened.”
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