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No Virgins in the Gray Lady's Whorehouse
By Michael Walsh
July 4, 2018
Just when you thought contemporary journalism couldn't sink any lower, along comes Ali Watkins, now 26, a reporter for the New York Times whose rapid rise through reporting's corrupt and partisan ranks includes stints at the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and Politico. Back in February, Ms. Watkins suddenly became the object of official attention when the feds seized her email and phone records as part of an investigation into a prominent Senate staffer, James Wolfe -- the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee and a Democrat, of course. Then, in June, Wolfe was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI, which was investigating leaks from the committee to select reporters... among whom was Ali Watkins .
It turns out that Watkins had been involved in a sexual relationship with Wolfe for three years, although at the time of Wolfe's arrest she had moved on to greener pastures, including other staffers on the committee:
In December, before she started work at The Times, Ms. Watkins told the paper’s national security editor, Amy Fiscus, about her previous relationships with staff members of the Senate committee... Ms. Fiscus relayed the information to the paper’s Washington bureau chief, Elisabeth Bumiller.
Ms. Fiscus and Ms. Bumiller said in interviews that they did not feel her past relationships should be a barrier to hiring her , because Ms. Watkins said that Mr. Wolfe had not been a source during their relationship, and because she would not be covering the Senate Intelligence Committee. They did not go back to ask Ms. Watkins’s previous employers about how she handled her involvement with Mr. Wolfe, and Ms. Bumiller did not inform other top newsroom leaders of the relationship. Ms. Watkins was also interviewed by several other senior editors before being hired.
On Dec. 14, days before her start date, Ms. Watkins was approached by two F.B.I. agents with questions about Mr. Wolfe, a conversation she immediately reported to her editors in the Times Washington bureau. In February, however, Ms. Watkins received a letter that she did not tell her editors about: a notice from the Justice Department, informing her that investigators had seized some of her email and phone records.
A responsible journalistic organization would never have hired this little scamp, but at the Times, which is hell-bent on turning its formerly white male newsroom into a model of "diversity," being female trumped all other considerations, and is clearly grooming Watkins for bigger things. But now that the truth is out about how this particular reporter got her scoops, a responsible journalistic organization would have fired her. Ms. Fiscus and Ms. Bumiller said in interviews that they did not feel her past relationships should be a barrier to hiring her , because Ms. Watkins said that Mr. Wolfe had not been a source during their relationship, and because she would not be covering the Senate Intelligence Committee. They did not go back to ask Ms. Watkins’s previous employers about how she handled her involvement with Mr. Wolfe, and Ms. Bumiller did not inform other top newsroom leaders of the relationship. Ms. Watkins was also interviewed by several other senior editors before being hired.
On Dec. 14, days before her start date, Ms. Watkins was approached by two F.B.I. agents with questions about Mr. Wolfe, a conversation she immediately reported to her editors in the Times Washington bureau. In February, however, Ms. Watkins received a letter that she did not tell her editors about: a notice from the Justice Department, informing her that investigators had seized some of her email and phone records.
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Further, if sleeping with your sources is "how we do our jobs," well... there's a word for that, and it isn't reporting.
Source: https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/no-virgins-in-the-gray-ladys-whorehouse/
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Unlike Mueller, these guys have *Actual* evidence, which prompted a *Timely* investigation into Miss Watson's crimes. President Trump and the people are still waiting.....and waiting....
This perhaps is why Progressive Democrat Leftists have been so determined to bring down Donald Trump because they know that their behavior is being exposed?
True, for the most part the major media doesn't read the Bible because, if they did, they would have read this: "Be sure your sins will find you out."
In essence, by their pointing a finger at Donald Trump, they're trying to shield themselves.
Every time something happens to a Progressive Leftist they always try to make Trump look worse than 0bama. They all remember the AP, James Rosen, his parents and most of America being spied on by the last regime.
The old grey mare is still the whoring media, no matter what color the lipstick, it's still a pig. I stopped reading the NY-Slime decades ago.
What reporter offered Clinton a Lewinsky? An what reporter had some tingling going down his leg for Obama? That's MSM integrity for you.
Although many readers here may be too young to remember a star Times reporter Walter Duranty a degenerate, but he sent the Times great bull crap about Joe Stalin and his Communist failed dealings. The Times had to know the truth about Duranty and Stalin's Soviet Union!
But as long as the fairy tale lying stories sold papers they looked away.
Then in the 1950's there was Herb Matthews NY times reporter that invented Fidel Castro and his revolution. The only thing new about the way the NY Times really operates is the fact that the public finally knows the truth. It's dwindling distribution can attest to their coming demise.
