Obama Administration considers independent journalists to be ‘enemies of the state,’ warn reporters

‘Author and former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson recently told senators considering confirmation of President Obama’s next attorney general pick, Loretta Lynch, that the nominee would need to “chart a new path” from the White House’s abysmal record of essentially treating some reporters like “enemies of the state.”

Attkisson’s accusations before the Senate Judiciary Committee were akin to those made in her 2014 book Stonewalled, in which she detailed how the Obama Administration — and officials in her own network — worked to prevent the public from learning more about several scandals, including Operation Fast and Furious, Benghazi and the green energy debacle.’

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