◼ A spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told The Daily Caller that the Washington Post is the only news organization to bite on new misleading sentiments from the Justice Department. - Yahoo
That part of his statement walks through how the Wall Street Journal had already debunked the meme, too. “The April 2010 ATF briefing on weapons smuggling by criminal cartels included a staff member of the Democratic staff of the Oversight Committee who has been working for Ranking Member Cummings on the Fast and Furious investigation,” the part of Hill’s statement to the Post that its reporters ignored read. “This Democratic staff member has never indicated to Republican staff that he had any prior awareness of the gunwalking that took place in Operation Fast and Furious and the recollections of Republican staff who attended this briefing have already been reported in the Wall Street Journal.”
On top of all that, one of the two Post reporters in the story’s byline, Sari Horwitz, is a known plagiarist. She plagiarized at least two stories during her reporting on the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, Arizona Democrat.
The Post’s executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, did not return TheDC’s request for comment on why he allowed a reporter with a history of plagiarism to use anonymous sources to bash a Republican.
That part of his statement walks through how the Wall Street Journal had already debunked the meme, too. “The April 2010 ATF briefing on weapons smuggling by criminal cartels included a staff member of the Democratic staff of the Oversight Committee who has been working for Ranking Member Cummings on the Fast and Furious investigation,” the part of Hill’s statement to the Post that its reporters ignored read. “This Democratic staff member has never indicated to Republican staff that he had any prior awareness of the gunwalking that took place in Operation Fast and Furious and the recollections of Republican staff who attended this briefing have already been reported in the Wall Street Journal.”
On top of all that, one of the two Post reporters in the story’s byline, Sari Horwitz, is a known plagiarist. She plagiarized at least two stories during her reporting on the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, Arizona Democrat.
The Post’s executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, did not return TheDC’s request for comment on why he allowed a reporter with a history of plagiarism to use anonymous sources to bash a Republican.
