>>14617713 (PB) The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer Allegedly Identified as “Reporter-2” in the Sussmann Indictment

Looks like Franklin Foer is a former Slate writer. From the DoS FOIA reading room in a NYT article re: Russia Russia Russia:

Trump, Russia, And The News Story That Wasn't

Friday, January 20, 2017

New York Times

By Liz Spayd

"If you know the F.B.I. is investigating, say, a presidential candidate, using significant resources and with explosive

consequences, that should be enough to write. Not a "gotcha" story that asserts unsubstantiated facts. But a piece that

describes the nature of the investigations, the unexplained but damning leads, with emphasis on what is known and

what isn't.

Running every detail of the dossier, as BuzzFeed did, would have been irresponsible. Writing about a significant

investigation would not. Weeks after The Times had the goods, Franklin Foer of Slate and David Com of Mother Jones each took a tum at such pre-election articles. Their stories may not have been precisely what The Times would have

done, but they offered a model. "

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