Americans discovered last spring that the Justice Department had wiretapped the office and home phones of Associated Press writers and editors during a national security investigation. The same department later named a journalist in court papers as a co-conspirator to a crime, essentially for just doing his job. More recently, the AP has accused the administration of using Freedom of Information Act requests as a way for President Obama’s political appointees to keep tabs on what journalists are investigating.

This week, the White House has committed another, though less serious, outrage. The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi revealed that Obama’s staff has been effectively censoring pool reports written by members of the press.