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2020-02-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-
More sleeping with sources in the swamp: Trump-hating DIA analyst pleads guilty to leaks to honeytrap reporter
[American Thinker] Ali Watkins, it seems, wasn't the only one.

The still-employed New York Times reporter set a new low bar in swamp journalism by sleeping with her sources, in her case Senate intelligence staffer James Wolfe, who got a two-month jail sentence for leaks to her, but in her case, ended only in her reassignment to the Times' New York City desk.

It's still going on, and a new case of it signals it's apparently widespread practice in the mainstream media.
As well as nearly everywhere else.
Now we have a less-politically prominent official, 30-year-old Defense Intelligence Agency bureaucrat Henry Kyle Frese, who's in the news for pleading guilty to leaking big classified secrets surrounding the defense capabilities of North Korea and China to his lover-reporter, CNBC national security correspondent Amanda Macias, and then, at her request, to her good pal NBC national security correspondent Courtney Kube. Court documents show that he had 630 phone calls and at least 57 text messages with Macias, and 34 phone calls and 151 text messages with Kube. The two women were both Trump haters based on their Twitter posts, slanting their coverage to make the president look bad through the use of classified secrets as if to contradict him, leaving him unable to use Twitter to either trick our enemies or else dismiss the reports. They took the eight top-secret reports Frese leaked to do that, and then boosted each other publicly on Twitter while communicating privately through its messaging system.

Here's the lovelorn trio of Macias, Frese and Kube, from their social media presence:
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-24 06:53|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 He thought it was his good looks and BMW.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-24 07:14||   2020-02-24 07:14|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-24 09:02||   2020-02-24 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Three makes it a conspiracy this time?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-24 14:24||   2020-02-24 14:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Is there any culpability for the honey trap reporters in these cases? The sap is guilty of leaks as well as feeling used. Oldest game in the world.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-24 17:30||   2020-02-24 17:30|| Front Page Top

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