Obama’s Head Of CIA Has Bodyguard Manhandle Reporter
Following Leon Panetta’s confirmation hearing Thursday, several reporters approached the CIA director-designate in the hallway outside room G-50 in the Dirksen Building.
There, CongressDaily reporter Chris Strohm — upon asking a question — was physically restrained by a man who accompanied Panetta at hearings both days.
Strohm, when reached by phone Friday, said he was unsure of the man’s role.
“I felt this hand grab my right arm and push me aside,” Strohm said.
By his account, Strohm told the man, “Please don’t touch me” more than once. Eventually, the man let him go.
Chicago politics.
Ed Morrissey adds:
CQ’s Tim Starks objected when it happened, and later told Politico’s Michael Calderon that he’d never seen any journalist pushed around like that before. Strohm downplayed it later, telling Calderon that worse things had happened to him during his career, but apparently not when asking an American public official a question.
The Obama administration has had a rough couple of weeks. I have a feeling that, as things continue to go sour for them, this is only going to get worse.
