Craig Livingston Quotes
If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.
Craig Livingston, Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security, White House Assistant and Campaign Advance Man (Democrat), Testimony, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 28, 1996
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Commenting on media criticism of her:
The George W. Bush administration was a very ideological one as opposed to pragmatic. They would not tolerate public officials who would say anything that might undermine an administrative ideological position. In particular, they did not want government scientists releasing any data or information that was not totally consistent with their ideology and program. They introduced a new policy within the government whereby no one could talk to a reporter or make a public speech or deliver a professional paper without first getting approval of administration “public affairs” agents first. Government scientists and other officials had never before been censored like this. Important scientific studies were not made public where they might not support the administration ideological positions. This is how the NASA public affairs official explained his role.
