Senator's Cuban Spy Claims Put Several Conservative Journalists On Defense
TOM KLUDT – JULY 8, 2014, 1:35 PM EDT
The explosive allegations that the Cuban government was behind claims that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) had sex with underage prostitutes may be most directly tied to the Daily Caller, but the saga touches a handful of conservative journalists who now find themselves at different outlets.
The Washington Post broke the news Monday night that Menendez had asked the Justice Department to look into the evidence gathered by American officials that Cuban intelligence officers planted the false story to smear the senator.
The New Jersey Democrat's attorney asserted in a letter to the Justice Department that Cuba wanted to upend the career of Menendez, a vocal critic of Fidel Castro's regime who was on the cusp of assuming the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee at the time the prostitution allegations surfaced in late-2012.
Tucker Carlson, the longtime conservative pundit and editor-in-chief of the Daily Caller, told WaPo that he'd be surprised if the allegations were in fact concocted by the Cuban government but he acknowledged that he couldn't "assess it without more information."
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