Posted on 05/28/2014 9:45:46 AM PDT by george76
According to the AP, a CIA agent’s name was leaked by the White House . The AP calls it an “embarrassing flub” even though it was a crime when an aide in the Bush administration leaked the name of part-time agent Valerie Plame.
What’s given little attention in the story is the fact that the Washington Post reporter who wrote the story sent his copy to the White House to be checked for “accuracy.”
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First of all, any reporter worth his salt would not depend on the subject he’s reporting on to verify accuracy. That’s just crazy. He’d make damned sure it was accurate before he wrote his story – and he’d freely hammer the person(s) responsible, not thank them for helping him write his story.
Of course it’s collusion. The reporter is merely an extension of the White House propaganda/spin machine.
In 2012, the Daily Caller revealed, through sources at Media Matters that Media Matters worked closely with the White House and media sources to bring us the “news.” Media Matters is a far-left organization and website dedicated to attacking political opponents of Progressives. Their purpose for existence is to debunk all stories not in line with their viewpoint.
“We were pretty much writing their prime time,” a former Media Matters employee said of the cable channel MSNBC. “But then virtually all the mainstream media was using our stuff.”
On Fast & Furious, Media Matters and the White House “instant messaged.”
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Collusion, leaks, and threats to the press mark this “transparent” administration as a standout fighting against any semblance of a free press.
(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...
The American news media.....paid Democrat liars.
Patrick Fitzgerald should be in prison for that circus of an investigation he did and he should stay there until he pays back every dime he wasted on it.
Yes it will. Like hitting a hornets nest, they will come out.
“Why do people bother to call them progressives.”
It sounds better than ‘communists’
In this case, the pool report was filed by Washington Post White House bureau chief Scott Wilson. Wilson said he had copied the list from the e-mail provided by White House press officials. He sent his pool report to the press officials, who then distributed it to a list of more than 6,000 recipients.
Wilson said that after the report was distributed, he noticed the unusual reference to the station chief and asked White House press officials in Afghanistan whether they had intended to include that name.
Initially, the press office raised no objection, apparently because military officials had provided the list to distribute to news organizations. But senior White House officials realized the mistake and scrambled to issue an updated list without the CIA officer’s name. The mistake, however, already was being noted on Twitter, although without the station chief’s name.
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Scott Wilson - Washington Post Bureau Chief
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Meet Washington Post’s Scott Wilson, Obama’s Summit News Butler
Washington Post reporter Scott Wilson topped Wednesday’s paper with a “news analysis” headlined “On world stage, Obama at ease as seminar leader.” The word that came to mind wasn’t “analysis.” It was “unanimous.” Everyone in Wilson’s supine story praised Obama’s command and personality. It’s like Wilson was Obama’s news butler at this summit:
The Washington Post is certainly trying to improve the stature of an American president struggling with a poor economy and political unpopularity at home.
http://www.mrc.org/bias-alerts/meet-washington-posts-scott-wilson-obamas-summit-news-butler
I first noticed Scott Wilson specifically when he managed to have a three page article published in the Washington Post about the role of drones used by Israel over Gaza
Wilson’s specialty in his articles is slipping in nuanced misrepresentations about Israel that are probably overlooked by the majority of Washington Post readers. They help to paint a subtly inaccurate picture of Israel. For example, drones are not used to detect and deter terrorists – they are there to terrorize the innocent Gazans.
CAMERA caught Wilson out in an attempt to avoid naming Israel’s capital as Jerusalem when he wrote in an article headed Obama to Iranian people in holiday message: ‘Americans seek a dialogue’:
November 10, 2010 – Leo Rennert: A WaPo reporter’s anti-Israeli bias stretches from Sderot to Jakarta
When Washington Post reporter Scott Wilson did a stint as the paper’s Jerusalem correspondent, he earned a well-deserved and well-documented reputation for anti-Israel bias, shading and spinning his copy to portray Israel in the darkest of hues while swallowing Palestinian narratives hook, line and sinker. Wilson spared no effort in writing lengthy up-close and personal features about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, but studiously avoided chronicling the plight of Israeli residents of Sderot when they were prime targets of thousands of missiles launched from Gaza.
Scott Wilson @PostScottWilson · 1h
Smart @TheFix reading of Obama’s West Point speech as a tacit critique of (Rand) Paulist foreign policy.
https://twitter.com/PostScottWilson
Scott Wilson @PostScottWilson · 4h
“With a kind word and a strong embrace, she had the ability to remind us that we are all God’s children.” President Obama on Maya Angelou
Scott Wilson @PostScottWilson · 5h
Nearly everything Obama has said in this speech-emphasis on alliances, values, cautious use of force-I knew about him before he took office.
Reporter on White House’s CIA Leak: ‘I Drew It to Their Attention Before They Had Noticed’
The reporter who was given the name of the CIA’s top agent in Afghanistan by the White House said he realized the significance of the leak even before the press office did.
“I drew it to their attention before they had noticed what had happened,” Washington Post White House bureau chief Scott Wilson told the Guardian Monday.
Wilson was given a list of individuals meeting with President Barack Obama during his surprise weekend visit to Afghanistan, including a person listed as “chief of station” — the highest-ranking CIA officer. The list was provided by U.S. military officials to the White House press office, and then sent out as part of Wilson’s pool report summary of Obama’s travels to more than 6,000 recipients.
“I asked the press official that was with us on the trip if they knew that the station chief had been identified in the list. That person said that they did not know that, but that because the list was provided by military, they assumed it was OK. By this time the list was out,” Wilson said.
He added, “Soon after, I think that they talked to their bosses, and realized that it was not OK. And they tried to figure out what to do about this, if there was a way to kind of un-ring the bell.”
Wilson said he thinks the highly pressurized situation combined with “very junior people” led to the error.
“My impression is these were very junior people trying to follow an order, that they don’t fully understand or get the ramifications of,” he told the Guardian. “There were a number of misunderstandings and mistakes, including my own failure to review the list before including it in my email, in my pool report. I wish I had, I regret it.”
Why do national reporters do such a transparently inaccurate (and insensitive) job of assessing terrorist attacks on President Obama's watch? On the front page of Saturday's Washington Post, reporter Scott Wilson spun furiously to avoid the obvious fact that candidate Obama's promises and President Obama's record on the War on Terror are remarkably at odds.
Worse yet, Wilson insisted that only the Boston Marathon bombings (death toll: three) counts as a "successful mass terrorist attack on Obama's watch," which completely avoids the mass shooting at Ford Hood by an Islamic radical (death toll: 13), which is often ridiculously categorized as workplace violence:
Only the bombings in Boston last year could be considered a successful mass terrorist attack on Obama’s watch, although there have been some near misses.
Fort Hood can't be put on a list of "near misses." Sadly, this isn't the first time Obama-friendly Scott Wilson had used this inaccurate, insensitive math that slaps the families of Fort Hood victims in the faced. Is this guy auditioning to be the next Jay Carney to revolve through the door into a White House PR job?
Agreed. Sounds better than Liberals too once that was destroyed out from under them.
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Thanks george76.
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