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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING NOW? State Department Ejects Free Beacon Reporter from Briefing


Reporter threatened at briefing detailing Obama admin concessions to Iran


The State Department’s Wendy Sherman testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee / AP


VIENNA—Officials with the Department of State threatened to call security Monday on a Washington Free Beacon reporter who was attempting to report on a briefing held by senior Obama administration figures in Vienna on the eve of an expected nuclear agreement with Iran.
Two State Department officials booted the Free Beacon from a room where Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, was talking to reporters, despite the Free Beacon’s being credentialed by the Austrian government for the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks.
Western observers present in Vienna for the talks linked the State Department’s behavior to jitters over media coverage revealing a still growing list of concessions being made to Iran by the Obama administration.
Melissa Turley, a State Department official, approached a Free Beacon reporter and demanded that he leave the room.

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