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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: megimoo on September 29, 2011, 02:42:36 PM

Title: Sebelius's HHS' Soviet-Style Power-Grab’
Post by: megimoo on September 29, 2011, 02:42:36 PM
The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) new media policy rightfully has journalists up in arms: The Department of Health and Human Services’ just-released media policy makes it official that staff members and reporters are forbidden to speak to each other without reporting to public information officers and supervisors.

....The rules have “formalized a creeping information-control mechanism that informally began during the Clinton Administration and was accelerated by the Bush and Obama administrations,” writes FDA Webview & FDA Review editor Jim Dickinson...... “The U.S. now takes a large step toward joining other information-controlling countries like my native Australia,

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/defending-obamacare-soviet-style-power-grab_594560.html

Title: Re: Sebelius's HHS' Soviet-Style Power-Grab’
Post by: thundley4 on September 29, 2011, 03:05:22 PM
The most open administration ever!  Vee Haff ways oof making you not talk!
Title: Re: Sebelius's HHS' Soviet-Style Power-Grab’
Post by: docstew on September 29, 2011, 06:50:13 PM
I see no reason why this should be at HHS. Wouldn't mind having a little piece of that with the DoD. Tired of reading "released on condition of anonymity because the person is not authorized to talk to the media." But without a legitimate national security reason or safety of Americans on the line, there is no reason for this move unless you want to hide something or prevent whistleblowers.
Title: Re: Sebelius's HHS' Soviet-Style Power-Grab’
Post by: JohnnyReb on September 29, 2011, 07:48:41 PM
Silly-bilious is another one that needs to go to prison when the Obama regime is thrown out.