CNN’s “The Lead” host Jake Tapper argued that while President Obama made some good points in his criticism of the media’s coverage of the 2016 presidential race, his “lecturing would be better delivered to your own administration” given its record on transparency on Tuesday. Tapper said that while Obama “made many salient points” he might not have been the right messenger. He added, “Many believe that Obama’s call for us to probe and dig deeper, and find out more has been made far more difficult by his administration, than any in recent decades, a far cry from assurances he offered as he first took office.” Tapper continued, “Transparency? ‘Obama hasn’t delivered,’ ProPublica reporter Justin Elliott wrote, in the Washington Post, just a few days ago, calling the massive backlog of those seeking and failing to receive information from the government under the Freedom of Information Act, ‘a disaster’ under Obama’s watch, with Obama officials ‘aggressively lobbying against reforms proposed in Congress.’ An Associated press study last year concluded that, ‘The Obama administration set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them under the…Freedom of Information Act.’ The Committee to Protect Journalists told CNN today, the