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Originally Posted by conor912
Also, would love to hear about this article that got killed...
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Did a ton of work with the same writer (I got a couple other N54 members involved as well) and while they were vetting the article (they took over two weeks) the Washignton Post ran their article (which was considerably less in-depth) so the WSJ decided there was no need to run the article. It was then shopped around and it looked like Atlantic Monthly might have picked it up and expanded it, if I recall correctly, but then that fell through too.
Was very frustrating because there were some very good people involved and it contained, by far, more information than any mainstream media piece I saw. Writer was very discouraged. He did the thing on spec because it wasn't his department. If I remember the FBI refusing to comment was a sticking point for the Journal, which seems odd since the FBI NEVER comments on an ongoing investigation.
This was all about a year ago right as things were breaking.