The Hill Joe Concha Aug. 16, 2018 Excerpt: Speaking of the 44th president, some may ask where the press was on the coordinated editorial front when Mr. Obama and his Department of Justice (DOJ), led by then-Attorney General Eric Holder, acted as "the greatest enemy to press freedom" since the Nixon years. That's a quote from New York Times reporter James Risen in 2015 — and that's only the beginning from him, as it pertained to the Obama DOJ jailing journalists for trying to do their jobs. “Eric Holder has sent a message to dictators around the world that it is okay to crack down on the press and jail journalists,” Risen tweeted in Feb. 2015. “Eric Holder leaves behind a wrecked First Amendment.” “Eric Holder managed to destroy any semblance of a reporter’s privilege in the United States,” he continued. “This is Eric Holder's true legacy on press freedom: ‘There is no First Amendment reporter's privilege.’ From DOJ brief in my case.” "I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting to undo damage done to press freedom in the United States by Barack Obama and Eric Holder," Risen declared. "My son is a reporter. I don't want him to have to live in a country where there is less press freedom than when I started as a journalist." Cont... http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/402095-with-bash-trump-day-press-acts-like-opposition-party
