{"id":724306,"date":"2022-06-30T09:03:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=247725"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:03:28","slug":"the-justice-department-pressured-usa-today-to-stop-publishing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/30\/the-justice-department-pressured-usa-today-to-stop-publishing-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Justice Department Pressured USA Today to Stop Publishing Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon bitterly complained to USA Today editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including\"Eric Holder's Lawless Legacy,\" [Feb. 3, 2015] and \"Eric Holder's Police Shooting Record? Dismal,\" [Aug. 20, 2014].\u00a0 Fallon (who later became presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's press secretary) protested to USA Today commentary editor David Mastio and another USA Today editor, Brian Gallagher, about my \"consistently nasty words about Mr. Holder\" and said that Bovard \"has never had a kind thing to say about Holder.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/30\/the-justice-department-pressured-usa-today-to-stop-publishing-me\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/30\/the-justice-department-pressured-usa-today-to-stop-publishing-me\/\">The Justice Department Pressured USA Today to Stop Publishing Me<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/30\/the-justice-department-pressured-usa-today-to-stop-publishing-me\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon bitterly complained to USA Today editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including&#8221;Eric Holder&#8217;s Lawless Legacy,&#8221; [Feb. 3, 2015] and &#8220;Eric Holder&#8217;s Police Shooting Record? D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724307,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724306\/revisions\/724307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}