How "The Swamp" Works, Chapter MDCVII
This "Real Clear Investigations" report by investigative journalist, Paul Sperry, tells you all you need to know about Washington and it's "leading" newspaper. Have disinfectant handy.
Paul Sperry is a top investigative journalist for Real Clear Investigations, part of the Real Clear Politics series of excellent, non-partisan websites. I check them daily. He’s the author of two books and contributes to thefederalist.com, a terrific libertarian-leaning website. He plays no favorites.
Sperry’s latest post illustrates how the Washington Post is deeply and unethically intertwined with high-level Democratic party-connected government officials, which of course, explains much of what they cover and what they do not.
For example, the ethically-challenged Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize with the New York Times for their coverage of the widely-discredited Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. You know, the fraud that $30 million of your tax money was spent via special counsel Robert Mueller that proved nothing more than it was a hoax. The Post and Times have yet to apologize or return their Pulitzer.
No special prosecutor in modern history has received less attention in the Post’s coverage than John Durham. He has methodically and painstakingly if slowly worked the connection between the Hillary Clinton campaign of 2016 and the weaponization of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies under the Obama Administration. It increasingly qualifies as the most significant political scandal in modern times. The Washington Post’s reaction? Meh. The ends justify the means, it seems.
The Post editor responsible for much of its January 6th and related coverage - some resulting in corrections - is Matea Gold. She’s married to the FBI’s new chief of staff, Jonathan Lenzner. He is the son of Clinton fixer Terry Lenzner. The same Lenzner made his name digging up dirt on Bill Clinton’s mistresses. Until recently, Jonathan Lenzner was first assistant US Attorney for Maryland, serving briefly as acting US Attorney. He used to run his father’s private investigation company. He was a significant financial contributor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
What is FBI director Christopher Wray thinking? Dumb question, I know. No wonder public confidence in the FBI, while still relatively high as Washington institutions go, is dropping.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, it seems. Especially if you have your spouse at the Washington Post ready to catch it. Now, we’re supposed to be impressed that Matea Gold has recused herself from her error-riddled and conflict-drenched reporting over the past several years. Spare me.
A sample of Sperry’s work today:
In the wake of Durham’s findings, the Post has retracted or corrected inaccuracies in several stories about Trump and his team. Gold also will be restricted from directing coverage of the ongoing Jan. 6 investigation or editing stories about the U.S. Capitol riot probe led by FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The conflict posed by Gold’s husband, whose family has long been allied politically with the Clintons, was discussed last week during a staff-wide Post meeting, according to sources familiar with the development.
It is not uncommon for Washington journalists to be married to government officials, lobbyists, and others who influence policy from various vantage points. But a review of Gold’s biography reveals a web of especially close connections to Democratic Party officials or activists.
“Not uncommon for Washington journalists to be married to government officials,” indeed. Read the whole thing. While Matea Gold and the Post is doing its best to virtue signal its purported ethics, the stench of massive conflicts of interests, partisanship, and insider dealing overpowers it.