The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) has hit back after Joe Biden regime spokesman Ian Sams upbraided its members for their coverage of the Hur report, which found Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” and exposed his “significant” memory issues.
“The February 13th letter from White House counsel spokesman Ian Sams to the White House Correspondents’ Association is misdirected,” said Kelly O’Donnell, who presides over the association.
“As a non-profit organization that advocates for its members in their efforts to cover the presidency, the WHCA does not, cannot and will not serve as a repository for the government’s views of what’s in the news,” the NBC journalist insisted.
She added that the WHCA has “never controlled or policed the journalism that is published or broadcast by our members or their employer” in the 110 years since its founding. She said it was “inappropriate for the White House to utilize internal pool distribution channels, primarily for logistics and the rapid sharing of need-to-know information, to disseminate generalized critiques of news coverage.”
O’Donnell bluntly warned that the WHCA would not distribute similar missives from the regime in the future.
Sams had complained about the way the media reported Hur’s findings on Biden “willfully” mishandling classified materials and said journalists had been “distracted” by “false and inappropriate comments” in the report about the 81-year-old Democrat being unable to remember when he was Vice President or when his son Beau died.
