This is outright suppression of the media.
Bloomberg BNA energy reporter, Ari Natter, was detained today by Capital Hill police for trying to ask the EPA chief a question:
Her tweet as she was being detained:
#transparency RT @AriNatter: I am being detained by Capital Police for trying to ask @EPAGina a question after her remarks.
— nickjuliano (@nickjuliano) March 28, 2014
We know that the media is tightly controlled in a communist state, and this lady has just been made an example of.
A reporter has been detained by Capitol Hill police for trying to ask a question of Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy.
Bloomberg BNA energy reporter Ari Natter tweeted about being detained.
#transparency RT @AriNatter: I am being detained by Capital Police for trying to ask @EPAGina a question after her remarks.
— nickjuliano (@nickjuliano) March 28, 2014
Natter was detained while covering the American Council On Renewable Energy conference, where McCarthy spoke. Also speaking at the conference was Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a staunch supporter of green energy who regularly takes the Senate floor to sound the alarm on global warming.
McCarthy spoke about renewable energy issues, including the EPA’s proposal to cut back the amount of ethanol refiners are required to blend into gasoline annually to avoid economic calamity. She also talked about the Obama administration’s view that energy and environmental policy go hand in hand.
“The energy issues and the environmental issues we are facing today are really two sides of the same coin,” she said.
Natter was eventually let go after police checked with their superiors and ran a background check on the reporter, determining he had the proper press credentials.
After consulting with his superiors and running a background check the police have let me go.
— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) March 28, 2014
.@alexcguillen: Not the first time I have been threatened with arrest for doing my job as a reporter. Probably not the last either.
— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) March 28, 2014
He also noted that McCarthy did not answer the question he braved Capitol Hill police to ask her.
Source: dailycaller.com
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This is now like Germany 1935…you can’t ask the government to explain themselves without storm-trooper interference…
NATO, the EU, and the United States are the bad guys in Africa, the Middle East, and in the Ukraine. End the stupid War on Terror and quit pouring trillions of dollars into a War murdering innocent civilians in Africa and the Middle East. Obama’s War on Terror is giving the Terrorists of Africa and the Middle East the Media Attention, hate, death, and destruction they want and the United States tax payer gets to pay for it. The violence in the Ukraine, like the violence in Syria, and the violence in nations in Africa is funded inside the United States from groups like the National Endowment for Democracy and guys like George Soros. The sanctions against Russia were wrong and stupid. NATO, the UK, and the United States involvement there is wrong and stupid. The Russians are the only good guys there. The people of Crimea wanted protection from the Terrorists and the violence funded from inside the United States. No Incumbents. They have not fired Obama.
Our EPA is just as corrupt as our NSA and IRS. Dishonesty is what we have to expect from anyone attached to Obama’s Administration.
Has the Government lost their minds..since when are we putting our citizen in jail for asking a question??..
How exactly does this kind of $#%&!@* happen and the public at large isn’t outraged by it ? ? ?
Remove the nazi-in chief
I am glad she has enough MOXIE to do this. Since when did we lose our right to free speech? EPA needs to be gone!!!
Qur Nation has become a gestopo nation
Bye Bye Free Press in America.
The Marxist playbook………..just remember who owns the EPA……!