text: "Civil Beat was told it would not be permitted to cover Pence’s meeting"
  
  I do hope it wasn't because Civil Beat allows raucous democratic debates and discussions by having a comments section to it's news reporting.
   I speculate that the NSA and the 16 other intelligence gathering agencies have fine tooth combed through CB comments section and decided it prudent to insulate VP Pence from vegan peaceniks, anti-statehood rebels, borderless dreamers, PC resisters, arm chair generals, surfers against political sewage spills, and senior citizens who aren't going to take it anymore.
  As long as Civil Beat allows the voices of the little people who can see the hypocrisy of those in power in both the state and federal government, and express their individual views that combined make a democracy, then those in power will not permit CB to cover their choreographed meetings and Potemkin pageantry.