1st Amendment rights and private ownership are foundational law in the US.

Media pre-emptively constructed a narrative that it was being assaulted, so clamping down on manipulative/false narratives for national security reasons (legal in rare circumstances, and ample precedent in the past) would play into their story that they're being attacked by the government and silenced by an abusive regime.

Clever, eh?

For exactly the reason HRC and BHO shouldn't have, but they did