World Net Daily reports in an article from yesterday, that it's Senior Staff Writer Jerome Korsi was denied entrance to a supposedly public hearing concerning the Mexican truck issue.
WND and us both are asking, "What's the DoT trying to hide???"
In a phone call to the DOT public affairs office, the agency explained it was requiring "press credentials" for admittance, and no one without them was allowed to participate.
The news conference was only for "credentialed members of the media," spokesman Bill Moseley told WND. "There's a specific credential. He did not have a media credential."
Gosh, that sounds like the typical Inside-the-Beltway runaround if I ever saw it. I'm also guessing that since Jerome and WND have been reporting and critisizing the Mexican truck issue since finding out about the issue months ago. Especially considering the opinions expressed were critical of the Administration's choice to ALLOW unpassed safety inspection Mexican trucks onto US highways. That wouldn't have ANYTHING at all to do with the case would it????
And how can a reporter obtain such a credential providing permission to attend?
"I don't know," Moseley responded.
Ahhh, the lovely "IDK excuse"..... No surprises here.
Leslie Miller, the Teamsters communications coordinator, also was dismayed WND had been prevented from hearing the DOT press conference.
"It's an absolute outrage when the executive branch of the government tries to stifle free speech by selecting who it shares information with," Miller wrote WND in an e-mail.
"What are they afraid of? Are their arguments so weak they can only allow people they consider 'friendly' into their news conferences?" she asked.
Sure seems that way doesn't it Leslie?
Time to raise a ruckus and get the DoT to explain their actions. Somebody has got some 'splainin to do.
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