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In reply to the discussion: This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest | Jill Abramson - The Guardian [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)24. The former editor of The New York Times will write anything to stay relevant.
Like the time she did a major for CIA, ignoring war criminals and traitors and stuff:
Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA
Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power
Glenn Greenwald
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 August 2012 14.58 EDT
EXCERPT...
But what is news in this disclosure are the newly released emails between Mark Mazzetti, the New York Times's national security and intelligence reporter, and CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf. The CIA had evidently heard that Maureen Dowd was planning to write a column on the CIA's role in pumping the film-makers with information about the Bin Laden raid in order to boost Obama's re-election chances, and was apparently worried about how Dowd's column would reflect on them. On 5 August 2011 (a Friday night), Harf wrote an email to Mazzetti with the subject line: "Any word??", suggesting, obviously, that she and Mazzetti had already discussed Dowd's impending column and she was expecting an update from the NYT reporter.
SNIP...
Even more amazing is the reaction of the newspaper's managing editor, Dean Baquet, to these revelations, as reported by Politico's Dylan Byers:
"New York Times Managing Editor Dean Baquet called POLITICO to explain the situation, but provided little clarity, saying he could not go into detail on the issue because it was an intelligence matter.
CONTINUED with LINKS...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia
I wonder what other important stories Ms. Abramson spiked or hawked as a "favor" to CIA and its controllers?
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This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest | Jill Abramson - The Guardian [View all]
BootinUp
May 2016
OP
Then please get your facts straight on what happened. Because you are way off on that one. nt
BootinUp
May 2016
#13
First off both cases she was telling the same story, and her policy has not changed
BootinUp
May 2016
#19
Which is it? A misstatement, an out of context quote or that's her story and she's sticking with it?
lumberjack_jeff
May 2016
#33
Shock? No, the media has been trying to gaslight reality itself for over a decade.
Shandris
May 2016
#23