Posted on 08/31/2015 2:01:18 PM PDT by maggief
The Washington Post published a column Thursday night by David Ignatius that purports to clear leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing in exclusively using a home brew server kept in her home that held top secret classified information during her four year tenure as secretary of state. The column is entitled The Hillary Clinton e-mail ‘scandal’ that isn’t.
Ignatius’ lead defense witness for Clinton is one Jeffrey Smith who is given four paragraphs of quotes defending Clinton. Ignatius identifies Smith as “a former CIA general counsel who’s now a partner at Arnold & Porter, where he often represents defendants suspected of misusing classified information.”
Smith is the only named source in Ignatius’ column.
Ignatius and The Post failed to disclose that Smith served as a ‘close’ national security adviser for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and that Smith has a history with the Clintons going back to at least President Bill Clinton’s election in 1992.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
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Yes, thank you, onyx. I am more appreciative of the hat-tip to FR, and traffic to MSM.
Sweetest you, beautiful girl! You’re our premiere researcher and you deserve recognition!
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Fawning over people may be your thing.
It isn't mine.
Make note. One person thinks all we do here should not be further researched and distributed to anyone. Just sent to him for his approval.
Jim when did you appoint humblegunner head of all?
I don't see where I said anything like that.
Maybe you could point it out.
It isn't mine.
Of course not crackpot, you're too busy fawning over yourself.
Just keep digging that little rut you live in deeper, Sport.
OK.
Ignatius quotes only one of these “knowledgeable lawyers” by name: Jeffrey Smith, whom he describes as “a former CIA general counsel who’s now a partner at Arnold & Porter.”
In contrast with USA Today, which mentions Tompkins’s donation in her shirttail bio, “Ignatius and The Post failed to disclose that Smith served as a ‘close’ national security adviser for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and that Smith has a history with the Clintons going back to at least President Bill Clinton’s election in 1992,” Blogress Kristinn Taylor notes. (That history includes the CIA general counsel post, which he held in 1995-96.)
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