Washington Post sends an article about a key Mueller witness down the memory hole.

American Thinker ^ | 04/08/2018 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Last month, readers of the Washington Post were treated to an AP article by Bradley Klapper and Karel Janicek detailing the pedophilia conviction of George Nader, who has been identified as a cooperating witness in the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation.  But Ryan Saavdera of the Daily Wire noticed that the article has been removed from the WaPo’s archive, with no retraction or formal notice of any kind.

The article, titled "Nader, Mueller’s latest cooperator, a convicted pedophile," was published on March 15 and documented George Nader's "15-year-old pedophilia conviction in Europe that has not been previously reported."

However, at some point over the last couple of weeks, The Washington Post decided to delete the article without offering any explanation or retraction. (A digital archive can be viewed here.)

Vanished headline (Via the internet archive)

The archived article is colorful and a bit and sensationalistic, starting with the detaining (arrest?) of Nader at Dulles Airport:

 It was a few days before the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration and a Lebanese-American businessman was on his way to Mar-a-Lago.

George Nader, an international fixer whose long history included intrepid back-channel mediation between Israel and Arab countries — and a 15-year-old pedophilia conviction in Europe that has not been previously reported — was transiting through Dulles International Airport outside Washington.

It was hardly his first far-flung journey to see top aides of the world’s most powerful leader, as Nader had met the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and chief strategist Steve Bannon in the days before they stormed the White House.

[freespirit2012]

So why did they delete the article?

[BenLurkin]

Dunno, but the anti-America media has long used the tactic of not reporting news it doesn’t like.

This is their primary tactic in selling fake news.

[ConservativeMind]

The same reason shadowbanning of conservatives happens: they don’t want anything supporting the truth of Liberalism/Libertineism to exist.

It makes people doubt their “Truth.”

[SeekAndFind]

RE: So why did they delete the article?

It is a mystery. According to the author... it is at this point, impossible to know why the Post pulled the story without comment. Has Nader turned into a major witness with pay dirt? If so (and I consider this unlikely), did Mueller’s team call up the Post and ask it to make embarrassing details about their star witness disappear? That seems heavy-handed, unethical, and counter-productive in the long run. In fact, it is hard to believe.

So, the other major possibility seems to be that this witness has turned out to be a nothingburger, an embarrassment to the investigators. But if so, how did the WaPo get the message that the article is an inconvenience and take the unusual action od deep-sixing it?

[JoSixChip]

That seems heavy-handed, unethical, and counter-productive in the long run. In fact, it is hard to believe.

Kind of like searching Manaford's storage locker, then getting a warrant after the fact. That kind of unethical?

[GOPJ]

Because they perp was a democrat, an Islamic or black.... The Washington Post does NOT trash ‘their own’...

[bitt]

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[justiceseeker93]

George Nader??? Wonder if he’s any relation to Ralph Nader, another darling of the left. I believe that Ralph is of Lebanese ancestry as well.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#5 re “how did the WaPo get the message that the article is an inconvenience and take the unusual action of deep-sixing it”?

The FBI/DOJ has more leaks that the Titanic, Lusitania, and USS Panay all combined and they leak towards the WP and NY Times like water going towards the ocean.

Never let it be said that the Wash. Post has any commitment to the Truth, Objectivity, or America.