February 27, 2017
IT'S NOT PARANOIA...:
Sean Spicer targets own staff in leak crackdown : The push includes random phone checks overseen by White House lawyers. (ANNIE KARNI and ALEX ISENSTADT 02/26/17, Politico)
...when you really are all out to get each other. The administration is essentially a ratking.Last week, after Spicer became aware that information had leaked out of a planning meeting with about a dozen of his communications staffers, he reconvened the group in his office to express his frustration over the number of private conversations and meetings that were showing up in unflattering news stories, according to sources in the room.Upon entering Spicer's office for what one person briefed on the gathering described as "an emergency meeting," staffers were told to dump their phones on a table for a "phone check," to prove they had nothing to hide.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 27, 2017 6:40 AM