WaPo Fails to Identify ‘Close’ Clinton Adviser Used in Ignatius Column to Clear Hillary

Gateway Pundit ^ | 8/28/2015 | Kristinn Taylor

[RightGeek]

The Washington Post published a column Thursday night by David Ignatius that purports to clear leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing in exclusively using a home brew server kept in her home that held top secret classified information during her four year tenure as secretary of state. The column is entitled The Hillary Clinton e-mail ‘scandal’ that isn’t.

Ignatius’ lead defense witness for Clinton is one Jeffrey Smith who is given four paragraphs of quotes defending Clinton. Ignatius identifies Smith as “a former CIA general counsel who’s now a partner at Arnold & Porter, where he often represents defendants suspected of misusing classified information.”

Smith is the only named source in Ignatius’ column.

Ignatius and The Post failed to disclose that Smith served as a ‘close’ national security adviser for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and that Smith has a history with the Clintons going back to at least President Bill Clinton’s election in 1992.

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[RightGeek]

Full title: WaPo Fails to Identify ‘Close’ Clinton Adviser Used in Ignatius Column to Clear Hillary in Email Scandal

[atc23]

In before nickcarraway!!!!

. . . wait, what?

[Fungi]

Instead of reporting the news, the WA Compost is advocating on behalf of Hillary. This is not journalism, this is blatant cheer leading an agenda defending Hillary. What crap.

[Mr Apple]

Smith served as a ‘close’ national security adviser for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and that Smith has a history with the Clintons going back to at least President Bill Clinton’s election in 1992.

I'm positive that this Smith character told bill what to say when he was being questioned by Time (mag.) reporters about chinagate.

[RitaOK]

LOL! That would make a great handle for someone, *in-before-nick.

[RitaOK]

Hey, the Post has been posting some real stuff in their coverage of Hillary. In fact, nowhere in the msm have I seen media giving her anything.

David Ignatius must be among the horse head crowd.

[blueunicorn6]

Ambassador Stevens thinks that perhaps Hillary should have been more careful about communications security.

[kristinn]

Thanks for posting. Hat tip given to maggief in article.

[databoss]

The liar gets everyone to lie for her.

[EternalVigilance]

Good one.

[Bill W was a conservative]

Ignatius was a Bolshevik when he was at Harvard (1968-1972). I really don’t think he has changed that much.

[joshua c]

Correct headline: Clinton crony clears Hillary of any wrongdoing.

[SunkenCiv]

Ignatius and The Post failed to disclose that Smith served as a 'close' national security adviser for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and that Smith has a history with the Clintons going back to at least President Bill Clinton's election in 1992.

• The Hillary Clinton e-mail 'scandal' that isn't [Washington Post Column Defends Hillary] | David Ignatius

[savedbygrace]

The reasoning seems to be that almost everybody does it, and almost nobody gets prosecuted for it, so Hillary didn’t really do anything wrong.

Children use that reasoning often. Some never grow up.