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The future is female! From Fox News: New York Times reporter Ali Watkins' past tweets are raising eyebrows after revelations she had a three-year romantic relationship with a Senate Intelligence Committee aide now accused by federal prosecutors of leaking sensitive information to journalists, including herself. It's unclear who was responsible for those specific leaks -- the tweets were posted about a month before a different reporter published the story on the Page subpoena. But the indictment strongly suggests Wolfe was a top source for committee stories and that Watkins was among the reporters who got information from Wolfe. In another tweet, Watkins asked: "So on a scale of 1 to ethical, how does everyone feel about pulling a @RealZoeBarnes for story ideas? #TOTALLYKIDDING @HouseofCards." The "House of Cards" tweets were posted months before prosecutors said her relationship with Wolfe began.As a 22-year-old senior at Temple University, Watkins also "helped McClatchy newspapers break a story related to the Senate Intelligence Committee," The Washington Post reports. "Wolfe was the committee's security director." Temple boasted about Watkins's role in the scoop, at the time:This is the future of journalism! Follow InformationLiberation on Twitter, Facebook and Gab. |