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Generic Brad

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3. Feels to me like they are an arm of the IC

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Mon May 15, 2017, 09:18 PM

May 2017

The last time I was this proud of the Post was in the 1970s when they exposed Watergate. And even then, Woodward & Bernstein were tools of the IC and coming up with info that was selectively leaked to them. For decades the Post has felt like a mouthpiece of the current administration to me. But lately, they seem to have grown a pair along with our patriots in the IC who are trying to protect us from enemies both foreign and domestic.

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The Washington Post reporters are awesome. [View all] milestogo May 2017 OP

They are more ethical than trump. Ilsa May 2017 #1

Fuck trump Badscooter1 May 2017 #4

Yes they have BannonsLiver May 2017 #2

+1 Hekate May 2017 #18

Feels to me like they are an arm of the IC Generic Brad May 2017 #3

Why would you call them "tools" then? brush May 2017 #5

An arm is a tool? Generic Brad May 2017 #6

tools of the IC? Deep Throat was one person who bucked the FBI by leaking... bettyellen May 2017 #8

I think poster meant tools in a positive way; being useful, not being used. Amaryllis May 2017 #10

But a tool is something someone else uses, so I doubt that unless they say they misspoke bettyellen May 2017 #15

Did anyone else notice that Jaffee one of the WaPo reporters mucifer May 2017 #7

More comfortable away from cameras for many reasons, I suspect elfin May 2017 #11

They regularly reinforce my decision to subscribe to the digital edition elfin May 2017 #9

I signed up for a digital subscription a few months back to support WhollyHeretic May 2017 #12

I did last week. Duppers May 2017 #17

They're really motivated kskiska May 2017 #13

I got a paid digital subscription soon after the Leaker of the Free World was elected. phylny May 2017 #14

To use a colloquial saying from my Massachusetts roots. They have some some huge "nads" CentralMass May 2017 #16

Indeed they are. I love the WaPo's new (?) motto: Democracy Dies In The Dark. Hekate May 2017 #19