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galen  ·  1643 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Whistle-Blower Is a C.I.A. Officer Who Was Detailed to the White House

Where are y'all on the NYT publishing this? Their comments section is chock full of people criticizing the decision, and I'm inclined to agree. Seems just to endanger the whistleblower without revealing too much important info--it's not like those who've been chanting "POLITICAL HACK" will be convinced of the complaint's legitimacy just because the whistleblower works for the deep state or whatever.





kleinbl00  ·  1640 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Twitter has pointed out that at the Washington Post, it's Watergate all over again while the New York Times appears doomed to repeat the runup to the Iraq War.

I'm vain; I cancelled my New York Times subscription because their Style section ran a really bitchy thing about Generation X and then signed up for the Washington Post because a childhood friend is now on staff. But maaaan. The NYT has been doing some excessively dumb shit of late.

galen  ·  1640 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just don't know where to go for US news these days, tbh. CNN has never not been shit, NYT is pulling some grade A skullfuckery, WaPo is Jeff Bezos' clickbait baby (no offense to your friend). Where do I turn, Al Jazeera English?

kleinbl00  ·  1639 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It pains me to say it but more and more, I read the Wall Street Journal.

am_Unition  ·  1641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe you heard this already, but the justification was that the White House already knew that the individual was CIA, but I still worry that a simple analysis by not-dumb people can be usurped by the Trump administration to fill in gaps that they were too stupid to resolve themselves.