Buried at the bottom of page A-3, today's Washington Post ran a little item headlined "Ex-CIA expert accused of aiding South Korea." Sue Mi Terry was "indicted on criminal charges of acting as an agent of South Korea," failing to register as a foreign agent -- like Hunter Biden. At the bottom of paragraph 8, we learned Terry is "the wife of Post columnist Max Boot."
Wow! That's the collusion-pushing Max Boot who loved to suggest Donald Trump was an agent of Putin's Russia. Conservative Twitter was amused at the idea that Boot was so suspicious of Team Trump's foreign intrigues he seemed to be missing the activity of his own wife. Or did he? Terry's lawyer is fiercely contesting the indictment from the Southern District of New York.
WaPo journo Max Boot was married to an unregistered foreign agent who was just indicted hahahahahaha https://t.co/Pnq0MNRnxy pic.twitter.com/TGoqOlTHFc
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) July 17, 2024
Russian Spy Hunter, Max Boot, was married to a real life foreign spy while he pushed the debunked Russian collusion hoax in the page of the Washington Post. Evidently he never noticed all of the expensive luxury goods his wife, Sue Mi Terry, was bringing home. pic.twitter.com/9dgVmsCLg5
— @amuse (@amuse) July 18, 2024
The New York Times also published a story, at top of Page A-9 on Thursday. They noted part of her influence-peddling was journalistic. Boot popped up in paragraph 18:
Ms. Terry made media appearances and wrote articles in American and South Korean publications reflecting Seoul’s policy priorities, the indictment said, including an opinion piece for The New York Times in 2014. She also co-wrote a piece with her husband, Max Boot, a Washington Post columnist, about the improving relationship between South Korea and Japan.
That's a journalistic embarrassment on top of the political embarrassment. The Post could not disclose they were being used by a foreign power. But that's okay. Before his grotesque execution, the Post published Jamal Khashoggi's opinion pieces, and he was having them "shaped" by his advisers in the government of Qatar.
The Post story reported the indictment said South Korea’s National Intelligence Service ”dined with her at luxury restaurants in New York and D.C. and bought her Louis Vuitton and Bottega Veneta handbags and a Dolce & Gabbana coat…Terry provided the intelligence officials with information and access to congressional staffers and high-ranking U.S. government officials.” There was also $37,000 in NIS money in the bargain.
It's a classic Washington story of gaming the political and media system for personal gain....even as your prance about accusing others of foreign intrigue! Max Boot should probably take a sabbatical and fulsomely apologize for his hypocrisy.
