Posted on 06/20/2018 5:31:44 PM PDT by richardb72
Many members of the media act like leaks of government information are coming from whistleblowers who are compelled by their consciences to do the right thing. But over the last week, that image has taken a real beating.
It has recently surfaced that New York Times reporter Ali Watkins may have had an affair with James Wolfe, the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee. Wolfe is 32 years her senior. The New York Times is still investigating, but there appears to be a real concern that the “meteoric” and “stunning” rise of Watkins as a star reporter may have come about in part by using sex to induce Wolfe to give her classified documents.
It doesn’t help Watkins’s case that, in 2013, she asked her Twitter followers what they thought of using sex to obtain information. In reference to the House of Cards TV series, she posed the question: “So on a scale of 1 to ethical, how does everyone feel about pulling a @RealZoeBarnes for story ideas?”
The report released on Thursday by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General warns: “We identified instances where FBI employees improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events.” The DOJ report finds that such enticements likely led agents to leak information, and points out FBI policy’s “clear and unambiguous” intolerance for this.
James Wolfe has been arrested and the inspector general has indicated that charges may be brought against the FBI agents who leaked information to reporters. But no one has so far suggested going after the reporters, who are themselves criminally liable for bribing government officials. Reporters can use information volunteered by a whistleblower, but bribes are a completely different story.
So far nothing has happened to....
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No, we don't. What we have is a little darker than a mere propaganda organ, though; what we have is an active espionage organization hiding under the protection of the First Amendment that has designs inimical to the United States and isn't in the least reluctant to admit it. The information they collect is the currency of power.
What concerns me more than bribing public officials with money, favors, and sex, is gathering information that is used with a specific political end in mind under a broad ideology whose intention is the fundamental "transformation" of its host society, by hook or crook and Lord knows both are involved. The influence of the media isn't new, and neither is its use in pursuit of the owners' political ends; what is new is the overarching ideology that is malignantly internationalist and anti-freedom across nearly the entire media spectrum. These have morphed from hard-bitten reporters who know their beat to a protected, privileged class immune from the consequences of the mess they're making. Until, of course, they're not.
Not to mention the only way to get a really good s*** in the future would be to provide the reporter with material they wanted to hear, not necessarily the truth...
They are definitely the front men for it.
Looks to me like you answered your own question.
Thanks.
Yep...
I agree with your take on it.
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