Former writer for The Intercept was behind some of the JCC bomb threats

[CommuterBob]

http://abc7ny.com/news/man-arrested-after-threats-against-anti-defamation-league-hq-jccs/1782896/

"MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) --
An arrest was made in connection with the bomb threat called into the national headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League on the East Side last month.

Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri. He is accused of making at least eight of the threats against JCCs.

A threat was anonymously called into the ADL's office at 605 Third Ave., on Feb 22. It was deemed not credible.

Investigators worked to determine the suspect's role in recent threats against Jewish organizations across the country since January.

Federal officials took him into custody and he will appear in federal court in Lower Manhattan."

Apparently, this is the same Juan Thompson who was fired from The Intercept after writing a series of articles exaggerating white power terrorism, where he falsified quotes from Dylan Roof's family and others.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/02/the-intercept-fires-reporter-juan-thompson

Maybe there is something to this "false flag" stuff against the JCCs.

 

[Knight_Light]

Crazy but almost not surprised.

Here is how that loon, Juan Thompson was making up fake sources and quotes when he was at the Intercept:

Juan Thompson

In February 2016, the site appended lengthy corrections to five stories by reporter Juan Thompson and retracted a sixth, about Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, written over the previous year, focused on the African-American community. Shortly afterward, a note from editor Betsy Reed indicated that Thompson had been fired recently after his editors discovered "a pattern of deception" in his reporting. According to Reed, he had "fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name".[39]

The site's investigation into Thompson's reporting had found that he had, on multiple occasions, attributed quotes to people who said he had not interviewed them or did not remember him doing so, people whom they could not reach to verify the quote or whose identity could not be confirmed.[39] In the retracted story, Roof's family said they did not know of a cousin whom Thompson had quoted as saying Roof's interest in white supremacy took off after a woman to whom he was attracted began dating a black man.[40] He also used "quotes that we cannot verify from unnamed people whom he claimed to have encountered at public events". To prevent his fabrications from being discovered, she continued, he lied to editors about how he had gotten the quotes, and in one case created an email account in the name of one of his sources. When editors discovered his actions, she added, he stood by his published work and, while admitting to creating the email accounts, refused to assist in the review otherwise.[39]

Reed apologized to readers and to those misquoted. She noted that some of Thompson's work, most of it using public sources, was verifiable. Editors alerted any downstream users of the affected stories, and promised to take similar action if further fabrication came to light.[39] After the note was published, the site amended Thompson's online biography when an editor at a Chicago public radio station said that while Thompson had indeed worked there, he had no involvement in the station's news reporting as he had claimed. His past tenure at DNAinfo in Chicago, where one editor tweeted in response to the story that she could have seen it coming, was also edited out.[41]

In an email to Reed he shared with various news outlets, Thompson said he was being treated for testicular cancer and for that reason had not had access to his notes when the site had asked to review them. He explained his methods as "writing drafts of stories, placing the names of [people] I wanted to get quotes from in there, and then going to fetch the quotes ... If I couldn't obtain a quote from the person I wanted, I went somewhere else, and must've forgot to change the names—clearly." While he admitted this was "sloppy", he faulted The Intercept for lacking "a sustained and competent editor to guide me," alluding to the site's managerial turnovers.[41]

He suggested that the greater problem was racism in the media field. He had made up pseudonyms for some of his sources, whom he described as "poor black people who didn't want their names in the public given the situations" and would not have spoken with a reporter otherwise. "[T]he journalism that covers the experiences of poor black folk and the journalism others, such as you and First Look, are used to differs drastically," he argued. He also claimed he had felt a need to "exaggerate my personal shit in order to prove my worth" at The Intercept given incidents of racial bias he said he had witnessed there. When Gawker published his email, Reed said those allegations had not been in the version he sent her.[41]

He was fired by The Intercept in early 2016, and according to Reed, did not cooperate into the investigation of his actions.[42]

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

...

Maybe there is something to this "false flag" stuff against the JCCs.

Oy vey!!!! That's how you get another hollllllllllllllllllowcost!!!! You're a NAZI!!!

 

[cnsaguy]

Juan, huh? I thought Trump was taking care of "these guys"?

 

[CommuterBob]

This has an interesting twist. Looks like he did some of this to exact revenge against an ex-girlfriend:

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/32...semitic-bomb-threat-case#.WLmKjd6q63s.twitter

"The suspect, Juan Thompson, has been charged by federal authoritieswith making the threats — some in his name and some in the name of an ex-girlfriend he’s accused of cyberstalking. "

"Federal prosecutors said Thompson “appears to have made at least eight of the JCC threats as part of a sustained campaign to harass and intimidate” the former romantic partner. "

 

[CommuterBob]

Oy vey!!!! That's how you get another hollllllllllllllllllowcost!!!! You're a NAZI!!!

I'm new to this NAZI stuff, does the swastika face clockwise or counter-clockwise?*

 

[Knight_Light]

Ben has some good comments about Juan this am:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/14065/suspect-who-phoned-8-bomb-threats-jewish-community-ben-shapiro

 

[Great2BAKnight2]

I follow Greenwald at the Intercept but the rest of their regular reporters are so partisan I can't take it seriously. Occasionally there's an investigative piece by someone other than Greenwald that's good, but otherwise it's junk news.

 

[Poolside Knight]

He is a big time Bernie supporter

 

[Sir Galahad]

If you didn't see this coming you're blind. I would dare say most of the anti-Semitic behavior comes from the left.

 

[Knight_Light]

If you didn't see this coming you're blind. I would dare say most of the anti-Semitic behavior comes from the left.

Even with this failed leftist journalist arrested, some like to ignore the fact that he did call in these terror bomb threats and are still upset at the lack of outrage from these exact acts by the administration, even though their focus thru multiple agencies was focused on finding this and other cowards that made these threats.

Ignore the facts and focus on the "feelings", that's what down liberals would rather focus on instead.