State Dept launches 'Free the Press' campaign while DOJ asks Supreme Court to force NYT's James Risen to jail

if the Justice Department succeeds “it could place President Barack Obama in the awkward position of presiding over the jailing of a journalist in an administration the president has vowed to make the most transparent in history.”

I am not sure the administration would consider that awkward at all. Has the President shown any signs of discomfort?

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