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Wall Street Journal relied on Syria “expert” with ties to jihad groups, did not disclose those ties

Sep 13, 2013 11:10 am By Robert Spencer

Finally, after three days they issued a “clarification.” Here is yet more evidence of how corrupt, clueless and compromised the media elites are: “Wall Street Journal sat on knowledge of O”Bagy”s link to Islamists,” by Charles C. Johnson in the Daily Caller, September 12 (thanks to Maxwell):

Contrary to claims from its editorial pages editor, a Wall Street Journal editor knew of Elizabeth O”Bagy”s connections to the Islamist Syrian Emergency Task Force and took at least three days to publish a clarification.

“We were not aware of Elizabeth O”Bagy”s academic claims or credential when we published her Aug. 31 op-ed, and the op-ed made no reference to them,” editorial pages editor Paul Gigot told Politico in a statement on September 11.

“We also were not aware of her affiliation with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, and we published a clarification when we learned of it,” Gigot wrote. “We are investigating the contents of her op-ed to the best of our ability, but to date we have seen no evidence to suggest any information in the piece was false.”

In fact, in an email exchange with The Daily Caller on September 3, Bari Weiss, the page’s associate opinion editor, wrote that the Journal was “aware” of O”Bagy”s affiliations.

On September 2 at 9:15 p.m., this reporter sent Weiss and a colleague an article on the Syrian Emergency Task Force’s pro-Islamist ties with the subject line: “Thought you should see this.”

Weiss did not respond, and this reporter followed up the next day with a message saying I was writing a story about the Syrian Emergency Task Force and O”Bagy”s ties to it.

“I”m asking why she wasn’t identified as working with the Syrian Emergency Task Force,” this reporter asked on September 3 at 4:24 p.m.

“Charles: I am aware. That’s not a secret, and despite your best efforts to find conspiracy around every corner, there is none here,” Weiss responded at 4:29 p.m.

“So why wasn’t it disclosed?” this reporter asked at 4:5o. Weiss did not respond.

Weiss did respond to a subsequent email on September 12 at 10:00 a.m., a week after The Daily Caller revealed O”Bagy”s ties to the Islamist group and nine days after Weiss had been made aware of it.

“You are misinterpreting my earlier email. I was not aware of O”Bagy”s affiliation with SETF when we published her op-ed,” Weiss wrote. “Our email exchange was on Sept. 3, four days after the op-ed ran. I was saying I became aware of it after publication.”

Presuming this is true, that still means the Journal only responded to the problem after multiple days, not “when we learned of it,” as Gigot said.

The paper published a “clarification” on O”Bagy”s op-ed on September 6, 2013, the day after The Daily Caller’s first story ran, and three days after Weiss was made aware. Weiss did not reply to a subsequent email I sent saying that I found it “hard to believe” that it took the Journal multiple days before deciding to issue a clarification….

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