[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

They find that government officials are increasingly fearful of talking to them, and they worry that their communications with sources can be monitored at any time.

Gee, maybe they could speak out about it.

Naaaaah.

[Beave Meister]

“A memo went out from the chief of staff a year ago to White "House employees and the intelligence agencies that told people to freeze and retain any e-mail, and presumably phone logs, of communications with me,” Sanger said. As a result, longtime sources no longer talk to him. “They tell me: ‘David, I love you, but don’t e-mail me. Let’s don’t chat until this blows over.’ ” Sanger, who has worked for the Times in Washington for two decades, said, “This is most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.” When will they go postal on this administration?