Cox Radio’s Jamie Dupree reports that federal officials “are slapping limits on members of the news media who want a glimpse inside” the facilities holding unaccompanied minors who have flooded across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks.
Dupree writes in his Washington Insider blog that, according to an HHS email to journalists, reporters signing up for the 40-minute tour of Fort Sill in Oklahoma “won’t exactly be allowed to do anything related to their jobs while on the tour of the facility.” Not permitted:
- No recording devices allowed for reporters
- No questions from reporters permitted during the tour
- No interactions with staff or children
- No on-site interviews with HHS staff before or after the tour
- No photos of the facility – photographs will be provided by HHS
@jamiedupree Surely you're not surprised.
— Liberty is Groovy (@GroovyLiberty) July 8, 2014
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— VACUOUS CIPHER (@THE_DAILY_BLEAT) July 8, 2014
@jamiedupree I don't recognize my country anymore!!
— Chris Coon (@ChrisCoon4) July 8, 2014
@jamiedupree This is getting scarier by the minute. What is going on in our country?
— Debi Ray (@debi_ray) July 8, 2014
@jamiedupree Looks like they have something to hid Jamie. The creeps.
— WackoBird King (@Yaking43) July 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/PostmasterBen/status/486310709026754561
@jamiedupree — with all the restrictions, what's the use of going there? I guess this is their goal…
— the CREATIVE mix (@9_to_5_Diaries) July 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/FLSurfGirl/status/486311332099395584
https://twitter.com/MatthewZaki/status/486313963010129920
@jamiedupree thanks for the update! Will we ever know how bad it is there
— @america1970 (@dana_cravey) July 8, 2014
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