Newsweek's Jonathan Alter says Robert Gibbs sent him a "threatening email" in 2008 after he wrote an article critical of Barack Obama.
There is a kind of a threatening tone that from time to time, not all the time, but comes out of these guys in this White House, but that doesn’t excuse it. And, you know, they should not play that way, but they, they feel like they’re holding the cards in the relationship. They’ve got people’s access, you know, to hold over them.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/04/Christian-Network-Reporter-White-House-Bullied
There is a kind of a threatening tone that from time to time, not all the time, but comes out of these guys in this White House, but that doesn’t excuse it. And, you know, they should not play that way, but they, they feel like they’re holding the cards in the relationship. They’ve got people’s access, you know, to hold over them.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/04/Christian-Network-Reporter-White-House-Bullied