UNITED
NATIONS, May
21 -- Long
before the
Obama
administration
went after
Associated
Press phone
calls about
Yemen, back in
2009 its focus
was
on North Korea
and Fox
reporter James
Rosen.
During
the
negotiation
and adoption
of that June
2009 UN
Security
Council
sanctions
resolution, as
now, Inner
City Press was
covering
Security
Council. The
paranoia of
the US Mission
to the UN was
high. Inner
City Press got a leak
of the final
draft of the
sanctions
resolution
and put it
online.
While
other
countries'
mission
complained,
the US Mission
grilled even
Security
Council
staffers
trying to
figure out who
leaked it.
It
was obvious at
the time that
North Korea
would react
with more
tests.
There was a
dispute about
whether force
could or would
be used to
search ships,
and about the
resolution
still allowing
a flow of
small
arms and light
weapons.
But
the Obama
administration's
attempt to
stop leaks,
even in that
case
by
non-Americans,
was evident
even then.
Jump-cut
to
June 2012,
when State
Department-run
Voice of
America tried
to get
Inner City
Press' UN
accreditation
"reviewed."
Documents
obtained
from VOA's
Broadcast
Board of
Governors
shows VOA
bragging
that Thomson Reuters,
Agence
France Presse,
Bloomberg
News and the
UN
Correspondents
Association
all supported
the move.
Now
jump-cut to
May 2013, when
the UN
supported by
UNCA, still
controlled
by Reuters and
AFP, is
trying to now
limit press
access to the
Security
Council --
no press work
can be done
there -- and
ask
yourself: who
is against
press freedom?
The new Free UN Coalition for Access is opposing
it. ng
it: but
which side is
Obama's US
Mission on?
Watch
this site.
, 
