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BUZZFEED CONFIRMS IT KNEW ABOUT ALI WATKINS’ RELATIONSHIP WITH INDICTED SENATE OFFICIAL
Daily Caller ^ | 6-8-2018 | Joe Simonson

Posted on 06/08/2018 1:18:05 PM PDT by tcrlaf

uestions remain over whether BuzzFeed News acted ethically with a former employee, Ali Watkins, who had a romantic relationship with an indicted former security director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Watkins told her BuzzFeed editors about her relationship with the individual, James Wolfe, who the Department of Justice has charged with lying to investigators during a leak probe, according to The New York Times, where Watkins now works as a national security reporter.

BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith said he would “not comment at all on a reporter’s sources in the middle of an unjustifiable leak hunt” when The Daily Caller News Foundation asked...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliwatkins; buzzfeed; intel; jamesawolfe; jameswolfe; jimwolfe; leak; nyt; sex; watkins
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THEY KNEW...

Now there are internet rumors flying around that she was banging one or two members of the actual committee, as well.

1 posted on 06/08/2018 1:18:06 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf
Ali Watkins, who had a romantic relationship with an indicted former security director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Any comment from Wolfe's FBI wife about this?


2 posted on 06/08/2018 1:20:54 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: tcrlaf
Questions remain over whether BuzzFeed News acted ethically....

That BuzzFeed's actions were unethical is beyond dispute. The important question is whether they were criminal.

3 posted on 06/08/2018 1:22:41 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: dragnet2

Talk about a honeypot covert operative/spy!!!


4 posted on 06/08/2018 1:23:30 PM PDT by myerson
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To: tcrlaf

So,who’s not running this year to spend more time with his family?


5 posted on 06/08/2018 1:26:13 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: dragnet2

If your wife is an FBI agent, does lying to to cover up your affair count the same as lying to the FBI? If so, this will add a lot more counts of lying to the feds...


6 posted on 06/08/2018 1:26:34 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Dr. Ursus

*snort*


7 posted on 06/08/2018 1:28:19 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: tcrlaf

They knew and didn’t report? They should be charged with conspiracy.


8 posted on 06/08/2018 1:31:37 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: shotgun

Funny how sex is an element in most of these things.


9 posted on 06/08/2018 1:35:14 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: tcrlaf

This tweet from her in 2013 has not aged well.

10 posted on 06/08/2018 1:36:48 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: tcrlaf

I think the girl was what was called a “honey trap,” that is, a young sweetie who would sleep with any guy who knew anything in order to get his info. And then he was hooked, because he was an older or unattractive man who thought she really loved him (sniff, sniff!).


11 posted on 06/08/2018 1:38:06 PM PDT by livius
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To: bigbob

Wow.


12 posted on 06/08/2018 1:39:18 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: bigbob

And she didn’t want to get shoved in front of a subway train?


13 posted on 06/08/2018 1:40:34 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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“THEY KNEW...”

...she was prostituting herself for them, which makes them her pimp.


14 posted on 06/08/2018 1:45:29 PM PDT by BeauBo
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...she was prostituting herself for them, which makes them her pimp.
15 posted on 06/08/2018 1:49:09 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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Some on twitter are speculating that "Reporter #3" in the indictment may be Marianna Sotomayor - which could indicate a pattern of recruiting/training young reporterettes to prostitute themselves, as a service/payment to their sources.


16 posted on 06/08/2018 1:53:37 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: tcrlaf

No, Buzzfeed’s Smith won’t comment about her “sources in the middle of an unjustifiable leak hunt.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


17 posted on 06/08/2018 1:56:28 PM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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They don’t need “training.” They are young, willing and able. #BeingZoeBarnes


18 posted on 06/08/2018 2:03:31 PM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: BeauBo

The publishers don’t need to say a word to the reporters. All they have to do is reward the ones who get the info, and fire the ones who don’t. The ones who are left will be the ones who are willing to do whatever it takes to get the scoop.


19 posted on 06/08/2018 2:03:47 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: tcrlaf

If she was banging one guy for info, she was probably banging several, which her emails and phone records will reveal. And each source probably had several reporters doing the same. A bit of digging, and you can unwind the whole network of sex and corruption.


20 posted on 06/08/2018 2:08:17 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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