The Washington Post has a story on the petty edits that the White House Press Office makes to pool reports. In pool reports, White House beat reporters take turns to serve as the one journalist recording more mundane events. Their report gets distributed to all journalists on the White House press list and other reporters […]
Archives for September 2014
Partial Victory for Whistleblower Jeffrey Scudder
September 19, 2014
In July, ExposeFacts shared the story of Jeffrey Scudder, a CIA project manager who lost his job over an effort to FOIA old copies of CIA’s internal journal, Studies of Intelligence, that had been cleared for release but then withheld. The other day, Scudder won a partial victory in his fight to get the CIA to […]
New Email Release Shows: Peter King Demanded an Investigation To Find Journalist’s Sources Like Peter King
September 8, 2014
On May 7, 2012, then Associated Press reporters Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo broke the story of a thwarted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) underwear bomb plot. Within a day, several news outlets — including ABC News, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times — reported that the culprit was actually a Saudi agent. On May 9, 2012, […]
