‘I’m Not Taking This Personally’; CNN Upset Marine Captured in Russia Called Them ‘Fake News’

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‘I’m Not Taking This Personally’; CNN Upset Marine Captured in Russia Called Them ‘Fake News’
By Curtis Houck | January 2, 2019 6:26 PM EST

Late Wednesday morning, The Daily Caller’s Benny Johnson flagged down quite the exasperating exchange hours earlier from CNN’s New Day as co-host Alisyn Camerota expressed dismay with a social media post by ex-Marine Paul Whelan that called CNN “fake news.” But what was it that made this ugly (other than it being self-absorbed)? Well, it’s because Whelan was arrested on Friday in Russia on allegations of espionage.

Camerota’s question came while interviewing Whelan’s twin brother David about Paul’s arrest for what the Putin regime claimed was espionage. According to both David and other media reports thus far, Whelan was not a spy but instead part of an arrest made by the Putin regime as leverage against the U.S.

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/01/02/im-not-taking-personally-cnn-upset-marine-captured-russia-called

[verga]

BKMK

[Frank Cannon]

Yeah. CNN is some solid news....

[TomSea]

Russian news agency says ‘U.S. spy’ recently arrested in Moscow was caught ‘red-handed’
Rosbalt
03:17, 3 january 2019

Paul Whelan, the U.S. citizen recently arrested in Moscow on espionage charges, was caught “red-handed,” according to the news agency Rosbalt. A source in Russia’s law enforcement reportedly says Whelan spent years using social media to recruit Russians with access to classified data. Whelan’s lawyer, meanwhile, told the news agency that he expects his client to be released on his own recognizance, when the case comes before a judge.

Rosbalt’s source says Federal Security Service officers arrested Whelan at his room in the Metropol Hotel, five minutes after he supposedly accepted a flash drive with a list of all the employees working at a classified security agency. The source claims that Whelan used “highly non-standard methods for intelligence gathering,” registering accounts on social networks popular among Russians. He supposedly started this as far back as a decade ago, broadcasting his interest in Russia and the Russian language. Rosbalt’s source says Whelan sought out Russian Internet users “tracked and selected in advance by American intelligence as individuals who might have access to classified information.”

After two years of friending Russian Internet users, Whelan reportedly started visiting Moscow. “What stood out,” Rosbalt says, “was that Whelan wasn’t at all interested in pretty Russian girls, and preferred to spend his time drinking with male friends from the Internet.” Whelan was supposedly embedding himself in the private lives of potential information sources, going so far as to attend these people’s family celebrations.

More: https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/01/03/russian-news-agency-says-u-s-spy-recently-arrested-in-moscow-was-caught-red-handed

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,346148.0.html  General Update Thread.

There's probably little that will convince us, one way or another.

[TomSea]

Obviously, Russia, China, Israel, USA, UK, we've all got spies, probably a lot of other nations too. It comes with the territory.

[skeeter]

Yeah. CNN is some solid news....

Media personalities getting stinko on the air on New Years Eve has been a thing for awhile now. But Don Lemon is really breaking new ground having that BM live.

[Frank Cannon]

Media personalities getting stinko on the air on New Years Eve has been a thing for awhile now. But Don Lemon is really breaking new ground having that BM live.

It's only a thing on CNN and the people getting shitfaced are their Prime Time talent. They don't even do this stupid shit on MSNBC.

[verga]

The thing is the potential for one of them to go Kathy Griffin is so much higher and say some really stupid cringe worthy libelous stuff and bring the FCC down on them. How doe management condone this stuff?