Joe Menn of The Washington Post Trying to Suppress the Johnathan Buma Leak

This isn't how journalism is supposed to work.

I didn’t want to do this but the Washington Post is dragging its fat ass. Johnathan Buma’s statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee was up for almost a month on this blog before Joseph Menn of The Washington Post got wind of it, and he used an intermediary to try to get me to take it down. I said no, then reached out to him. Here’s what he said:

I stand by my initial impression that these guys would not have credited me if I had taken it down, because in general these liberal mandarins see themselves as better than other people.

Two months after this conversation Israel popped off, exposing some of the other issues here, and I stand by my framing of the leak as well, that what’s going on here also has a lot to do with Israel. In general in DC it’s considered declassé to think, let alone say, the Israelis are ever up to anything untoward. How do you feel about that today?

What they’re probably concerned about is the impression that Buma’s story is presented as anything other than far-right corruption, or the evils of white people or something, instead of Russian and Jewish criminality, which is what it’s really about. If the Post and the Senate are prepared to ditch a whistleblower exposing top-level FBI corruption because it doesn’t match their preferred framing or they’re upset because I published the leak first, that says more about them than it does about me. It’s either ideology or pure, petty jealousy.