Never mind that this is a reporter from Al Jezeera America...
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Let me move on to another topic in the Obama administration. How would you grade this administration, compared to others, when it comes to its relationship with the media?

Well, I would slightly like to interpret the question as "How secretive is this White House?" which I think is the most important question. I would say it is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering, and that includes — I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now, and I was Washington bureau chief of the Times during George W. Bush's first term.

I dealt directly with the Bush White House when they had concerns that stories we were about to run put the national security under threat. But, you know, they were not pursuing criminal leak investigations. The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.
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there's more at: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows...igenthaler.html

but my thoughts after reading this is why does she allow this secrecy policy to remain so? She has a newspaper and she can expose things and make life miserable for those who want secrets kept. Remember the role of the press? do stories Ms Abramson!
Instead this is simply an off the cuff remark in an interview with Al Jezeera?
The interview concludes and ho-hum, she goes back life as usual, dutifully reporting the Lefist news as an apologist for this administration.
Why'd she do this?
Perhaps her conscience felt the need for some cleansing? some honesty?
"There, that was refreshing. I feel better now" Is that why Ms Abramson?