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Published by Libertarian Institute<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 and republished by Counterpunch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon<\/strong> bitterly complained to USA Today<\/strong> editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including”Eric Holder’s Lawless Legacy<\/a>,” [Feb. 3, 2015] and “Eric Holder’s Police Shooting Record? Dismal<\/a>,” [Aug. 20, 2014].\u00a0 Fallon (who later became presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s press secretary) protested to USA Today<\/em> commentary editor David Mastio<\/strong> and another USA Today editor, Brian Gallagher<\/strong>, about my “consistently nasty words about Mr. Holder” and said that Bovard “has never had a kind thing to say about Holder.” (Actually, I praised Holder’s curtailing prosecutions of minor drug possession in a 2013 USA Today<\/em> column that recounted my experiences working with a convict road gang<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Fallon caterwauled that I had “authored pieces in various places criticizing [Holder] on civil liberties, relations with law enforcement, civil asset forfeiture and media subpoenas. In the past, Bovard even has articulated a conspiracy theory involving Mr. Holder and the incident at Waco in the 1990s.” (Waco was only “the incident… in the 1990s”? No wonder Fallon loathed me.) Fallon groused, “I don’t understand why USA Today<\/em> would provide a platform on repeated occasions for his Holder bashing.”<\/p>\n

Mastio replied,\u00a0 “As an opinion section, much of what we publish is written by writers with agendas…. Just as our door is open to writers who want to say nasty things about the attorney general, our door is wide open to the attorney general when he wants to write about the top issues of the day.”\u00a0 Mastio also declared, “The guarantor of balance in the opinion section is that we are open to a wide variety of views.”\u00a0\u00a0 Mastio also assured Fallon, “”I can\u00a0 guarantee you that I return phone calls and emails from the attorney general’s representatives a hell of a lot faster than aging libertarians.”<\/p>\n

I acquired Fallon’s messages and Mastio’s responses via a 2019 Freedom of Information Act request, reposted in full below.<\/p>\n

Mastio recently resigned from USA Today <\/em>and wrote about the changes he saw on its editorial policy today in the New York Post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the years following that pressure from the Justice Department press office, Mastio & USA Today<\/em> published some of the hard-hitting articles I submitted to them\u00a0 on federal law enforcement outrages, including –<\/p>\n

“End Federal Agents’ License to Kill”<\/a> (November 9, 2015)<\/p>\n

“Comey firing justly knocks FBI off its pedestal<\/a>” (May 11, 2017)<\/p>\n

“After the FBI’s Pulse nightclub failure, why should we trust James Comey anymore<\/a>?” (April 3, 2018)<\/p>\n

“Inspector general’s report on FBI and Clinton’s emails shows secrecy threatens democracy”<\/a> (June 15, 2018)<\/p>\n

“Don’t count on the FBI to clear up the Kavanaugh-Ford mess. Its record is flawed<\/a>” (October 2, 2018)<\/p>\n

“You may have seen him on a prayer candle, but James Comey is no saint<\/a>” (August 30, 2019).<\/p>\n

“Inspector General report on FBI’s FISA abuse tells us one thing: We need radical reform.<\/a>” (December 10, 2019)<\/p>\n

“Under four presidents, the Feds neglected duty to collect statistics on police killing<\/a>s” (June 11, 2020)<\/p>\n

I don’t know how many other publications have been pressured by politicians or federal agencies to not publish or to muzzle my work. Unfortunately, I am unlikely to hear such details when the federal elbows succeed – – editors rarely confess their kowtowing<\/ins>. I know some of the backstory of how the Washington Post<\/em> caved in 1994<\/a> on an article on drug education<\/a> turning kids into narcs; the Post added six paragraphs to my article and ended up libeling an innocent Georgia couple as drug dealers.\u00a0 The Post<\/em> paid an undisclosed libel settlement and hushed up the incident.\u00a0 In 1999, Reader’s Digest<\/em> took a dive after the Clinton White House pressured them not to publish my investigation of AmeriCorps. (My editors at the American Spectator<\/em> weren’t intimidated, snapping up the piece and running it as a cover story<\/a>.)\u00a0 There were other articles that were accepted by high-profile publications but then killed, sometimes for bizarre arcane reasons that almost certainly came from insiders at the agency I was whacking.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if those cases were the tip of the iceberg of media kowtowing or a few exceptional cases of editorial nerves failing.\u00a0 In prior times, when I filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking to learn of official finagling targeting my work, the responses came back so empty that I sometimes burst out laughing.\u00a0 The FBI said they had nothing on me in their files \u2013 even though FBI chief Louis Freeh wrote letters<\/a> to two newspapers<\/a> in 1995 condemning my articles on Ruby Ridge<\/a>. When I filed a request for files mentioning my name with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (which I often hammered in the 1990s), the official response notified me that they had nothing in their files on “Kevin Bovard.”\u00a0 Ya, well, I wasn’t asking about my cousin.<\/p>\n

Attached below is the PDF of the Justice Department’s FOIA response.\u00a0 I think viewers will need to page through it; I’m not aware of a WordPress app that would make all the pages visible in one view. If anyone has suggestions on that score, please let me know.<\/p>\njpb FOIA DOJ 2015 emails to usa today 03. Final Response (4.29.20)<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published by Libertarian Institute,\u00a0 and republished by Counterpunch In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon bitterly complained to USA Today editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including”Eric Holder’s Lawless Legacy,” [Feb. 3, 2015] and “Eric Holder’s Police Shooting Record? 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17368"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17417,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368\/revisions\/17417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}