David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent of the Times, says, “This is the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered.” Times public editor Margaret Sullivan: “It’s turning out to be the administration of unprecedented secrecy and unprecedented attacks on a free press.” Financial Times correspondent Richard McGregor: “Covering this White House is pretty miserable in terms of getting anything of substance to report on in what should be a much more open system.” ABC News White House correspondent Ann Compton: “He’s the least transparent of the seven presidents I’ve covered in
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