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Some reporters complained last week that transcripts from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s on-the-record talks — one was laced with more than a dozen expletives — weren’t being released or posted on the Defense Department website. Kevin Baron writes:
Some Pentagon journalists grumbled whether DOD was trying to stifle potentially bad coverage. But Panetta’s spokesman insisted this was a case of ironing out first-trip wrinkles, not censoring transcripts.
CNN’s Charley Keyes reports that transcripts that in the past were usually released in a few hours began showing up on the department website late Monday — ten days after the words were spoken by Panetta.
