e.g. The Obama admin has used the Espionage Act to pursue whistleblowers more than all previous administrations combined The US dropped 13 pts in the Global Press Freedom Index under Obama "Journalists and transparency advocates say the White House curbs routine disclosure of information and deploys its own media to evade scrutiny by the press. Aggressive prosecution of leakers of classified information and broad electronic surveillance programs deter government sources from speaking to journalists." "The fight for access to public information has never been harder, Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee said recently at a joint meeting of the American Society of News Editors, the Associated Press Media Editors and the Associated Press Photo Managers." USA Today's Susan Page and former WH correspondent Bob Franken: Obama administration has been more hostile to journalists than any other administration