White House planted fake story

nhboy

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" The White House apparently attempted to smear a critical reporter by planting a story about him laughing at the mention of a Navy SEAL’s death.

Politico published a story Sunday morning by Alex Isenstadt and Annie Karni on a surprise meeting called by White House press secretary Sean Spicer to examine aides’ phones and other electronic devices for evidence of leaks.

When multiple sources leaked details of that meeting to Isenstadt and Karni, it appears other White House officials slapped back at one of the Politico reporters using the death of a Navy SEAL killed just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in a controversial Yemen raid.

The Washington Examiner published a story Sunday evening, about six and a half hours after the “phone check” report broke, claims one of the Politico reporters mocked a Trump aide’s emotional reaction to the death of Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens.

Politico’s editor, Carrie Budoff Brown, accused the White House of anonymously planting a false story to smear one of the website’s reporters. "

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/white-house-planted-fake-story-to-smear-politico-reporter-who-wrote-about-leaks-reports/
 

vraiblonde

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This story is so effed up and pretzeled that I have no idea where to begin questioning it. Let's just say that when "anonymous sources said this about another anonymous person, then more anonymous people said some other things"...yeah, that would be your basic bull####.
 

GURPS

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Let's just say that when "anonymous sources said this about another anonymous person, then more anonymous people said some other things"...

Progbots

Group #1 publishes something from 'anonymous' sources

group #2 quotes the 1st anonymous source to 'lend' credibility .... then the Progressive Media quotes Source #2
 
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