White House: "We're not the type of administration ... who leaks a lot to the press"

[sabra]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003549434

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E&P has been excerpting from some of the interviews in the past week, featuring Bob Woodward, Bill Keller, Len Downie and others. Today we look at White House communications chief Dan Bartlett and his view on relations with the media. With the Libby trial still in the news, it may strike some as odd that he would assert, "We're not the type of administration ... who leaks a lot to the press, uses the media in the way maybe past administrations have, to advance personal agendas, policy proposals."

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Q. It's pretty strained. It has been very strained.

Well, sometimes the conversation about our administration and the media -- two different areas get conflated. One is the issue of the so-called access. We're not the type of administration ... who leaks a lot to the press, uses the media in the way maybe past administrations have, to advance personal agendas, policy proposals.

The other strains come from, I think, more from just being a country during a time in war. When there (is) a lot of more classified information, there's more conversations that should be happening in secret. There is the issue of access in that respect that has obviously played out very publicly and has been a strain.

[liberal N proud]

1. Choking here!

[myrna minx]

2. Well, I do declare.

:spray:

[Ilsa]

3. "We're not the kind of Administration that likes to tell the public

about the evil we're about to inflict upon them and the rest of the world."

Yeah, they only leak when it is to their advantage.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. How was he able to make that statement with a straight face?

:wow:

[Skidmore]

5. They don't leak...they

outright pee on the press.