The author of a Washington Post opinion piece condemning Julian Assange as a Russian agent has been exposed by an alert reader for concealing her role as a State Department operative.
Allison Stanger, who penned the April 28 piece “Assange: Not a whistleblower, not a journalist,” was identified by The Washington Post as a "professor of international politics and economics at Middlebury College and the author of 'Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump'."
Lew Kingsbury wrote the Press Herald in Portland, Maine, that Stanger had neglected to mention to her readers her position as a State Department adviser under Secretary Hillary Clinton. As Stanger's Middlebury faculty page says, she has served as an adviser to "the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State and was on the writing team that produced the State Department’s December 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review."
Kingsbury of Nobleboro, Maine, declared, "This overlooked tidbit obscures Stanger’s position at the State Department under Barack Obama’s Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s Mike Pompeo. To expect anything but a regurgitation of State Department sloganeering and rhetoric is unconscionable."
In addition, one may observe that Stanger is not a professional journalist, though she nevertheless has the First Amendment right to try to abridge the First Amendment right of others.
Stanger tries to make the case that Assange is really a Russian agent, but her method of insinuation is no better than the method used by Clinton and her allies to claim that Donald Trump is a Russian agent.
Also, Stanger's professionalism must be questioned because she never revealed to her readers that Assange has been charged with terrorism -- a ridiculous idea -- in order for prosecutors to evade the statute of limitations. The media in general have avoided mention of the charge, evidently because most Americans would see it as a trick to "get" a political target.
Stanger's hit job
https://www.usposts.net/2019/04/assange-not-a-whistleblower-not-a-journalist/
Assange rights backed on Press Freedom Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGWhRCXg9Fw
Allison Stanger, who penned the April 28 piece “Assange: Not a whistleblower, not a journalist,” was identified by The Washington Post as a "professor of international politics and economics at Middlebury College and the author of 'Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump'."
Lew Kingsbury wrote the Press Herald in Portland, Maine, that Stanger had neglected to mention to her readers her position as a State Department adviser under Secretary Hillary Clinton. As Stanger's Middlebury faculty page says, she has served as an adviser to "the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State and was on the writing team that produced the State Department’s December 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review."
Kingsbury of Nobleboro, Maine, declared, "This overlooked tidbit obscures Stanger’s position at the State Department under Barack Obama’s Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s Mike Pompeo. To expect anything but a regurgitation of State Department sloganeering and rhetoric is unconscionable."
In addition, one may observe that Stanger is not a professional journalist, though she nevertheless has the First Amendment right to try to abridge the First Amendment right of others.
Stanger tries to make the case that Assange is really a Russian agent, but her method of insinuation is no better than the method used by Clinton and her allies to claim that Donald Trump is a Russian agent.
Also, Stanger's professionalism must be questioned because she never revealed to her readers that Assange has been charged with terrorism -- a ridiculous idea -- in order for prosecutors to evade the statute of limitations. The media in general have avoided mention of the charge, evidently because most Americans would see it as a trick to "get" a political target.
Stanger's hit job
https://www.usposts.net/2019/04/assange-not-a-whistleblower-not-a-journalist/
Assange rights backed on Press Freedom Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGWhRCXg9Fw
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