“I’m being fed questions, top down. I don’t have the opportunity to develop my own stories or my own leads. I’m being told, ‘You will ask this. You will cover this,'” he said.

Feinberg said he eventually wasn’t allowed to ask unapproved questions during White House press briefings. He added that he felt his bosses were contorting stories to mislead readers.

“For instance, after the gas attack in Syria … I was asked to put questions to the White House that framed the issue in such a way that made it seem that the attack didn’t happen, that it was staged,” Feinberg said.

Feinberg said the final straw came when his bosses at Sputnik asked him to investigate the Seth Rich case.