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Summary of the President's abuse of freedom of the press - bullet - 09-03-2018 09:29 AM
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/The-White-House-is-at-war-with-reporters-but-13199382.php
"...rarely took questions from reporters and went months between press conferences, preferring one-on-one interviews with television reporters and anchors, a setup that allowed him more control.
He broke a promise to make his schedule public, and his staff repeatedly scrubbed public visitor logs to conceal the names of White House visitors.
The administration dramatically slowed Freedom of Information Act processing, amassing the worst record in history for fulfilling requests from citizens and journalists for public records.
Worse, <the president> used federal prosecutors to go after news sources. After campaigning as a reformer who would protect whistleblowers, <the president> made greater use of the Espionage Act to prosecute leakers and menace journalists than all other presidents combined....
Justice Department in 2010 infiltrated the private email of Fox News reporter James Rosen, who was reporting on North Korea. The administration also seized personal records from Rosen’s colleagues and parents.
In 2013 Obama’s <now that I've gotten you to read this far-yes, we are talking about President Obama> Justice Department seized phone records of the Associated Press, secretly collecting information covering more than 20 telephone lines of reporters and editors including their work, home and cell phones.
The New York Times’ Risen, who fought the administration to protect his own sources, got so deep in his legal battle with Obama that he selected a reading list of of Civil War books to study in prison before the government finally backed off their case...."