When I said the media were in bed with intelligence community leakers, I didn't mean for it to be taken literally!
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 8, 2018
A member of the leftwing media sleeps with an insider to leak classified information for their insane politically-charged anti-Trump campaign. I guess emails and phone calls wouldn’t do.
Via Fox News
New York Times reporter Ali Watkins’ past tweets are raising eyebrows after revelations she had a three-year romantic relationship with a Senate Intelligence Committee aide now accused by federal prosecutors of leaking sensitive information to journalists, including herself.
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that federal investigators had seized years’ worth of Watkins’ email and phone records as part of a leak probe into James Wolfe, the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee indicted for giving false statements to FBI agents. Wolfe appeared for a federal court hearing in Baltimore on Friday, where he relinquished his passport and was prohibited from traveling outside of the District of Columbia and Maryland.
The indictment says Wolfe leaked information to reporters about the committee’s work, including its subpoena last fall of an individual believed to be former Trump adviser Carter Page.
But in several tweets in September 2017, Watkins, while dating Wolfe and working for Politico, seemed to point the finger at attorneys for President Trump over various media disclosures.
……The indictment said Wolfe, 58, began dating Watkins — who is in her 20’s — in 2013 when she was an undergraduate student working as a news intern. The indictment said the pair ended the relationship in December 2017.In an April 2013 tweet, Watkins also tweeted about the fictional Netflix television show “House of Cards,” where a young reporter has an affair with an older member of Congress.
I wanted to be Zoe Barnes…until episode 4. Sleeping with your source- especially a vindictive congressman? #badlifechoice #HouseofCards
— Ali Watkins (@AliWatkins) April 2, 2013
The revelations also have raised questions about how much her employers knew about the relationship. Watkins previously worked for BuzzFeed, Politico and McClatchy.
The New York Times said Watkins informed her editors about the previous relationship when she was hired. The newspaper also said Watkins claimed to have told both Politico and BuzzFeed about the relationship, though she continued covering the committee.
The Times article said the newspaper only learned Thursday that the DOJ sent her a letter in February about the record seizure. She joined the newspaper in Decmber 2017.
Since the story went public, her employers have expressed concerns about the government obtaining her records.
Watkins has zero self awareness.
This sums things up quite nicely:
https://twitter.com/Durak_IronHyde/status/1005258324550381570
To be clear: The NY Times reporter who pushed the fake Russiagate hoax from the start was sleeping with and getting classified documents from the Director of Senate Intel Security
Let that sink in
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 9, 2018
So much for the “Journalist Code of Ethics“.
Related article:
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2018/06/26/the-reporters-also-committed-a-crime-n2494317