The Secret Service Loves Reporters! As Long As They Stay in Their Place
We told you last week how WaPo‘s Dana Milbank had complained in an online Q&A that at a recent Palin rally he’d covered in Florida the Secret Service had expanded its role of protecting the candidates to include keeping the press away from rally participants. Not so! Says Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan:
It’s not a function of the Secret Service to prevent or limit reporters from interviewing the people at events. We’ve never been asked by any campaign to do that…Being in a press pool gives them special access.
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