White House Caught In Another Lie

From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Update: Chronicle responds after Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia, then claims they didn't
First, Vice President Joe Biden locked a reporter in a closet for hours, and now the White House is censoring free speech.

"Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.


Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:


Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.


The Chronicle's report is accurate.


If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.


I was on some of those calls and can confirm Ward's statement.


Messy ball now firmly in White House court."

I'm deeply concerned with the deteriorating actions of an increasingly brazen White House... Are you?