Even in the press conference on Friday, Ian Sams, spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office ran into a skeptical reporter in the form of Jon Decker, the White House correspondent for Gray Television. Decker is the former head of the White House Correspondents Association and one of my former students. So why would the White House risk looking like it is going full “Baghdad Bob” in denying readily observable facts? The Biden White House has become more open in its marching orders to media, including a letter drafted by the Biden White House Legal Counsel’s Office calling for major media to “ramp up their scrutiny” of House Republicans. The use of White House staff for such purposes has been cited in past impeachment articles.

Source: New York Times February 11, 2024 00:26 UTC