Webwit: you’re not a US voter.
You’re also a totally clueless conspiracy theorist and internet troll who badmouths other internet commenters’ children and tries to discredit journalistic heroes based on the transparently ridiculous scribblings of political hacks at the Weekly Standard.
So Jane Mayer sent an email to Sidney Blumenthal (note, Blumenthal is also a career journalist, former
New Yorker writer etc.) in 2012 teasing him that a NYT story might come out revealing who tipped the FBI off about Petraeus’s affair. How is this evidence of anything nefarious?
Here’s the NYT story, which came out right after that:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/us/ci ... ector.html
You think Jane Mayer telling a journalist friend that “you’re going to like tomorrow’s NYT story” without sharing any of its concrete details makes her part of a vast evil conspiracy? Oy vey.
A decade ago, I was fortunate to sit with a small group and listen to Jane Mayer talk about her work investigating the abuses of the US “war on terror”. She was and is amazing. For everyone else reading, I highly recommend all of Jane Mayer’s work at the New Yorker and in books, though reading it can get quite depressing.
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Overall I’d recommend you give up on US politics. You are lacking basic knowledge about the context, which means you cannot reasonably interpret what you read, and end up getting led around by the nose by conspiracy sites. It’s not healthy for you, and it’s totally useless for any discussion you join.
The people who want to discredit Jane Mayer are the torturers, child murderers, and dirty political tricksters. That you have allowed yourself to become their unwitting minion is sad.