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WaPo Fails to Identify ‘Close’ Clinton Adviser Used in Ignatius Column to Clear Hillary in Email..
Gateway Pundit ^ | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 08/31/2015 2:01:18 PM PDT by maggief

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1992; 1993; 2008; 2008election; 201508; clintonstaffers; davidignatius; jeffreysmith; kristinntaylor; nongovemails
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To: maggief; humblegunner; kristinn; Jim Robinson; hoosiermama; LucyT

Very nice recognition granted you, dearest maggief by kristinn!


21 posted on 08/31/2015 5:40:00 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon!)
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To: onyx; humblegunner; kristinn; Jim Robinson; hoosiermama; LucyT

Yes, thank you, onyx. I am more appreciative of the hat-tip to FR, and traffic to MSM.


22 posted on 08/31/2015 5:47:33 PM PDT by maggief
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Sweetest you, beautiful girl! You’re our premiere researcher and you deserve recognition!
Leave it to our gracious kristinn! He’s the very best, too!


23 posted on 08/31/2015 5:51:33 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon!)
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To: hoosiermama
Back off

Fawning over people may be your thing.

It isn't mine.

24 posted on 09/01/2015 6:30:13 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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Make note. One person thinks all we do here should not be further researched and distributed to anyone. Just sent to him for his approval.
Jim when did you appoint humblegunner head of all?


25 posted on 09/01/2015 8:14:58 AM PDT by hoosiermama ( Read my lips: no more Bushes)
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To: hoosiermama
One person thinks all we do here should not be further researched and distributed to anyone.

I don't see where I said anything like that.

Maybe you could point it out.

26 posted on 09/01/2015 8:49:54 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: humblegunner
Fawning over people may be your thing.

It isn't mine.

Of course not crackpot, you're too busy fawning over yourself.

Just keep digging that little rut you live in deeper, Sport.

27 posted on 09/01/2015 10:55:25 AM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

OK.


28 posted on 09/01/2015 11:01:33 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: maggief; Jim Robinson; onyx; hoosiermama; The Cajun; humblegunner
Maggie, your info made The Wall Street Journal today. Thanks.

Ignatius quotes only one of these “knowledgeable lawyers” by name: Jeffrey Smith, whom he describes as “a former CIA general counsel who’s now a partner at Arnold & Porter.”

In contrast with USA Today, which mentions Tompkins’s donation in her shirttail bio, “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,” Blogress Kristinn Taylor notes. (That history includes the CIA general counsel post, which he held in 1995-96.)

29 posted on 09/01/2015 12:35:12 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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Yes. great job by both of you. FR networking at its finest!


30 posted on 09/01/2015 12:37:23 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Read my lips: no more Bushes)
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^5 !!
31 posted on 09/01/2015 3:51:30 PM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: maggief
Ignatius/Post finally make half-hearted disclosure.
32 posted on 09/04/2015 8:03:45 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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