"A New York Times reporter fed information about Jared Kushner meeting with Russians to the FBI

[kpete]

“A New York Times reporter fed information about Jared Kushner meeting with Russians to the FBI, newly released emails show,” the Washington Examiner reports.

“Journalist Michael Schmidt sent an email on March 24, 2017, to FBI Assistant Director for Public Affairs Michael Kortan, stating that his colleagues were reporting on the FBI’s Russia investigation and had stumbled onto some information about President Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser.”

Said Schmidt: “Wanted to flag you on something. Three of my colleagues are working on a story about the Russia investigation. They’re told that Jared Kushner is among the individuals who the F.B.I. is scrutinizing for their meetings with Russians. My colleagues were told that Ambassador Kislyak, after meeting Kushner and General Flynn in early December at Trump Tower, set up a meeting with Kushner and a Russian banker. Kushner ultimately met with the Russian banker. The banker worked for Alpha Bank.”

https://politicalwire.com/2019/06/21/reporter-sent-info-on-jared-kushner-to-fbi/


UPDATED TO ADD:
NY Times Journos Rip Trump, Washington Examiner for Suggesting NYT Illegally Fed Info to FBI: ‘This is a Crap Story’

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[underpants]

1. If you see something, say something

Right?

[C_U_L8R]

2. Alfa... not Alpha

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. 2018...I had no business with Russians, says Jared.....

At the Presser at the Rose Garden in March of that year. He LIED , as does his FIL on a daily basis.

Those statements will come back to haunt him. Good!

[malaise]

7. Which is why he could not get a security clearance

Lock up these criminals please

[blueinredohio]

5. That was over two years ago.

What has happened since? Nothing.

[Sherman A1]

6. Seems to be the case

[hedda_foil]

8. So they followed protocol by checking with the FBI.

But will Barf whip this into something criminal?

[Kid Berwyn]

9. The Mueller Report, Alfa Bank and Dick Cheney

https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/04/29/the-mueller-report-alfa-bank-and-the-deep-state/

[gratuitous]

10. Read the antidote to this nonsense at Wonkette:

Courtesy of the Five Dollar Feminist. Only the first four paragraphs because I'm a tease (Oh, and that copyright thing):

https://www.wonkette.com/washington-examiner-will-teach-new-york-times-to-journalism-gooder

Here at Wonkette, we are often MAD AT THE NEW YORK TIMES. It's kind of a thing -- we yell at them because we think they're doing journalism wrong. The Washington Examiner, however, is yelling at the Times for doing journalism right. Because when you've been shotgunning Tom Fitton's rancid Judicial Watch exhalations all day, big boy journalist stuff like confirming the story with the subject starts to look like demonic sorcery.

Here's the email from March 23, 2017 where the Times's Michael Schmidt asked Michael Kortan, the FBI's Assistant Director for Public Affairs, to comment on an upcoming story about Jared Kushner's secret meeting with a Russian banker.

Mike: Wanted to flag you on something. Three of my colleagues are working on a story about the Russia investigation. They're told that Jared Kushner is among the individuals who the F.B.I. is scrutinizing for their meetings with Russians. My colleagues were told that Ambassador Kislyak, after meeting Kushner and General Flynn in early December at Trump Tower, set up a meeting with Kushner and a Russian banker. Kushner ultimately met with the Russian banker. The banker worked for Alpha Bank. Thanks. Mike

Astute observers will note that Michael Kortan's actual job was to respond to press inquiries just like this one, and that Schmidt was doing bog-standard due diligence by asking Kortan to confirm or deny details of a then-pending FBI investigation. But in the fevered wingnut imagination, this is proof that nefarious Times reporter "fed information about Jared Kushner meeting with Russians to the FBI."

As us olds say, click on the link and read the whole thing. The Washington Examiner is trying to spin standard journalistic practices into some dark deceitful subterfuge.