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Politico suggests Trey Gowdy responsible for State Department screw-up | Washington Examiner
Politico Spin Meister.
Yet, even with these admissions from State, Politico's headline unfairly blamed Gowdy for the redaction failure, a few in media suggested after the story's publication.
"How on earth is that fair? Politico's decision to focus blame on Gowdy only makes sense if you assume that his decision to release the emails in the first place was wrong. But that's a political judgment, not the sort of judgment reporters ought to making. And again, if Gowdy's decision was reckless, it was only reckless because he put his faith in the State Department and they dropped the ball," Mediaite's Alex Griswold wrote.
He also accused Politico of downplaying the seriousness of the issue. If the CIA didn't object to the already publicly known source being mentioned by name, and that the request came only from the State Department, this suggests that the "security implications for the entire story are basically nonexistent."
"Reporters file FOIA requests all the time to obtain emails from government officials, which are redacted to exclude personal information, classified information, etc. If the State Department accidentally failed to redact classified information and a Politico reporter posted the full email, would Politico's headline read that they 'accidentally' released that information?" he asked.
"Or would they justifiably blame the people whose only job is to prevent these kinds of messes?" he added.
Politico Spin Meister.