https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/30/obama-not-trump-true-menace-media/

Finally, truth about Hussein's attempt to shut the press down and prosecute whistleblowers.

Since 1945, the government has used the Espionage Act of 1917 just 11 times to prosecute journalists and their government sources. Seven of those occurred while Mr. Obama was president.

By the time Mr. Obama was leaving office, his administration had set a new record for rejecting Freedom of Information Act requests from journalists trying to gather information, censoring materials or flat-out denying applications for access in 596,095 cases — or 77 percent of the time, according to a review conducted by The Associated Press. The irony of the situation was perfectly captured in a Vice News headline: “It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform.”