Turns out Buzzfeed, the liberal propaganda online rag that Ali Watkins wrote for at the time she revealed classified information that was likely given to her by Democrat leaker James Wolfe know all along. Despite Buzzfeed knowing of the relationship and conflict of interest, they never disclosed he information to the public, or in any of Ali Watkins posts there. Watkins is now at the the New York Times. Maybe what Ali Watkins did by having an affair with James Wolfe to get classified information is the new Ben SmithING.
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Questions remain over whether BuzzFeed News acted ethically with a former employee, Ali Watkins, who had a romantic relationship with an indicted former security director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Watkins told her BuzzFeed editors about her relationship with the individual, James Wolfe, who the Department of Justice has charged with lying to investigators during a leak probe, according to The New York Times, where Watkins now works as a national security reporter.
BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith said he would “not comment at all on a reporter’s sources in the middle of an unjustifiable leak hunt” when The Daily Caller News Foundation asked about the extent the organization knew about Watkins’ behavior to corroborate The Times’ reporting.