Beto in his younger days with his shoes untied.
Posted on 03/17/2019 5:13:23 AM PDT by Liz
Reuters bragged Friday about its scoop that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was once involved in a notorious hacker group, but revealed in the process that one of its reporters willingly sat on the story until after O’Rourke lost his Texas Senate race to incumbent Ted Cruz. Reuters’ Joseph Menn reported exclusively Friday morning that O’Rourke, a former member of Congress and the latest Democrat to join the 2020 presidential race, had a secret membership in an infamous hacking group.
The group, known as the Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC), is the oldest and perhaps most influential collection of hackers in the US,. O’Rourke was a member as a teenager; the group has protected his secret for decades in order to avoid damaging his political career. But journo , who has a forthcoming book about the CDC cult, first learned that O’Rourke was a member over a year ago, in late 2017.
Reuters “backstory” explained that Menn held onto the story until after O’Rourke’s high-profile Senate race in exchange for an on-the-record interview. Menn says he was on leave from Reuters at the time in order to work on his book. Menn had been looking into the CDC for years and “found out that they had a member who was sitting in Congress … and then I figured out which one it was.”
However, Menn said the CDC wouldn’t confirm that O’Rourke was the member in question unless the reporter agreed to hang on to the information “until after the November election” in 2018. After agreeing to the group’s terms, Menn approached O’Rourke for an interview with the promise that it would not be published until after his Senate race. O’Rourke agreed.
Menn defended his decision, Tweeting that he only had a “guess” that O’Rourke was the cult member in Congress and “zero sources.” The reporter did not explain how he came to guess O’Rourke’s involvement and if he had enough information at the time to independently verify his hunch without the CDC’s confirmation. "To be clear, I offered @BetoORourke an embargo because it was for a book I was on leave to write, not for my day job, and because no one else who knew would confirm the facts before the election."
In his interview with Menn, Beto O’Rourke spoke positively of the CDC......through which he engaged in illegal activity. According to Menn’s reporting, O’Rourke accessed cracked gaming software and stole credit card numbers in order to place free long distance phone calls. “There’s just this profound value in being able to be apart from the system and look at it critically and have fun while you’re doing it,” O’Rourke said of the group. “I think of the Cult of the Dead Cow as a great example oof that.”
Menn’s agreement with the CDC that prevented voters from learning about O’Rourke’s hacking calls to mind NBC News’ decision to sit on newsworthy information about then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in fall 2018. In late September, Julie Swetnick claimed Kavanaugh had participated in gang rapes; it was an allegation her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said could be corroborated by another woman. NBC revealed in late October — weeks after Kavanaugh’s tense confirmation hearings — that the second woman contradicted Swetnick’s story during a phone interview on September 30. Rather than publish the information at the time when Kavanaugh was facing the allegations in the Senate, NBC opted to hold it until after the judge was already confirmed.
In addition, Menn said he agreed to CDC’s terms because he “wanted the full story” for his book on the group “rather than 1 scoop ahead of a state vote.”
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The O’Rourke’s family business, like most demonrats, is up to it’s eyebrows in tax trouble. The loony left isn’t reporting on that and neither is the supposed right. Oh, yeah, FOX is too busy firing Jeanine.
“Journalists” protecting political teachers’s pets aren’t doing their profession a favor. Then again, that works for us in the long run.
So go ahead liberal journalists - throw away what little integrity you have left - we’ll still respect you in the morning..../s
He looks more like Jeb Bush
And acts like a panty waste sycophantic loser
This cover-up lies at the feet of democrats and their gullible fools in the press.
We can't uncover all the filth about democrats.
DOES HE HAVE A JOB Both O'Rourke and his wife Amy are independently wealthy.
Amy's father, Bill Sanders, is a renowned real estate giant with an estimated net worth of $500 million, according to Forbes.
Vanity Fair reported that O'Rourke's mother gave him partial ownership over the furniture store she once owned, which closed in 2010 after it was fined for alleged tax fraud — a charge denied by both O'Rourke and his mother. The magazine said O'Rourke's net worth is around $9 million.
It's odd how the Washington Post and New York Times aren't asking for the Beto tax information either... Could it be bias and corruption that's holding them back from looking at Beto too closely? Is that possible? /s
sorry, no. Just eccentric teenage looney tunes intended to get a rise out of the black shod organs of the state. Oh, wait, teenage male culture is a “cult” because “culture” starts with “cult”...
Beto in his younger days with his shoes untied.
Eat your peas!
Thanks Robert A Cook PE. Reuters journo probably had the same paymaster as Christopher Steele.
Yup. Purposely destroying people's lives by ruining their credit for kicks, definately crosses a line.
I am not proud of some of the things I did and said as a kid, simple vandalism (breaking of bottles in a street because it was fun to hear them smash against the pavement) and I shoplifted a few things, but I can look back and be grateful it didn’t ruin my life.
Irish Bob sounds like he doesn’t have any regrets other than having it come to light.
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