Unbelievable:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/opinion/press-freedom-arthur-sulzberger.html#click=https://t.co/dWv4Bfuo5B

"SNIP......

To give you a sense of what this retreat looks like on the ground, let me tell you a story I’ve never shared publicly before. Two years ago, we got a call from a United States government official warning us of the imminent arrest of a New York Times reporter based in Egypt named Declan Walsh. Though the news was alarming, the call was actually fairly standard. Over the years, we’ve received countless such warnings from American diplomats, military leaders and national security officials.

But this particular call took a surprising and distressing turn. We learned the official was passing along this warning without the knowledge or permission of the Trump administration. Rather than trying to stop the Egyptian government or assist the reporter, the official believed, the Trump administration intended to sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out. The official feared being punished for even alerting us to the danger.

Unable to count on our own government to prevent the arrest or help free Declan if he were imprisoned, we turned to his native country, Ireland, for help. Within an hour, Irish diplomats traveled to his house and safely escorted him to the airport before Egyptian forces could detain him.


......SNIP"

Even if the government official was wrong and Trump's government would have helped diplomatically, the connective tissue was and is fraying.

[Flaleftist]

1. Sadly, it is believable.

[dchill]

2. Oh, it's believable.

[Doodley]

3. It's what we expect from Trump and his fellow traitors.

[oasis]

4. Washington Post's Jamal Khashoogi got no sympathy from Trump&co.

No surprise.

[NCLefty]

5. Trumpism is a human cancer.

2020 is everything.

[Duppers]

6. Tell Nancy..

If you haven't already. An investigation will get the votes she needs.

[GeorgeGist]

7. And the failing NYT sat on it for 2 years!

Classy

[brush]

8. I get if this was Saudi Arabia but why is the trump admin in cahoots with the Egyptian gov.?

Anybody know what's going on there?

[Skinner]

9. That is so messed up.

But sadly unsurprising.

[applegrove]

10. Reporter was lucky they had citizenship elsewhere.