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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What exactly was he doing in Russia?We spend millions "rescuing" people but can't keep our kids safe in schools. [/quote]
He’s a reporter in the Wall Street Journal’s Moscow bureau. Has been a reporter in Russia for years. Detained on what I’m sure are trumped up espionage charges.[/quote]

I don't know anything about this particular writer but the fact is that CIA has used journalists for years.

https://www.rcfp.org/journals/the-news-media-and-the-law-winter-2003/will-history-government-usi/

Media manipulation by the CIA and FBI came to the forefront of public attention with the admission of the practices by Congressional intelligence committees in early 1976. Reports issued by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, known as the Church Committee after Chairman Frank Church (D-Idaho), outlined CIA and FBI practices that regularly used journalists for their own means.

The CIA adopted regulations in 1977 that barred the practice of using journalists, all the while neglecting to publicize a loophole that would allow the agency to use journalists under “extraordinary” circumstances with the “specific approval” of the CIA director.

The loophole came to public attention in 1996, when the Washington Post exposed the waiver in the regulation’s language that few even knew existed.

An upheaval of dissent resounded from media groups including the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

At the time, reporter Terry Anderson was a testament to their case. Anderson, former chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was held hostage in Lebanon for seven years under the alleged suspicion that he was an American spy.

However, he told the St. Petersburg Times in 1996 that his Muslim terrorist captors “believe all Americans are spies, particularly those who go around asking questions.” The CIA’s policy of utilizing journalists on “extraordinarily rare” occasions, according to advocates, was simply the nail in the coffin.

There are several accounts of individuals affiliated with the U.S. media who have suffered similar accounts. The CIA also has not explicitly explained what constitutes “extraordinarily rare” occasions and circumstances.

The 1997 Intelligence Authorization Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, allowing the ban on the use of journalists to be waived with notification to Congress and presidential approval.

Attorney General guidelines established in 1992 allow FBI agents to impersonate journalists with approval from bureau headquarters. The Columbia Journalism Review reported in November 1992 that the FBI, after being probed of its practices by a journalist whose name and credentials were appropriated by the FBI without his knowledge, expanded this practice to its counterintelligence operations.[/quote]

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