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Mike Pompeo testifying during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on “Worldwide Threats” on February 13, 2018. Leah Millis/Reuters
It’s long been something of a journalistic truism: You never know the impact a story is going to have after it’s published— or, perhaps even more unknowable, when it might have any impact at all.
It’s a lesson I relearned in vivid technicolor this week when the Wall Street Journal popped a front page exclusive detailing how Tucker Carlson, the ex-Fox News host, torpedoed Mike Pompeo’s hopes of becoming Trump’s Secretary of Defense by accusing the ex-CIA director of, among other misdeeds, plotting to assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“Carlson went public with the allegations about Pompeo and Assange in an April interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, without providing evidence,” the Journal reporter, Vivian Salama, wrote in the original version of the story.*
The story is a fascinating window into the increasing MAGA-world influence of Carlson, not to mention his podcast interlocutor, Rogan, in their civil war against traditional national security hawks like Pompeo. But contrary to the Journal’s account, there is no mystery about where Carlson got the idea that Pompeo tried to have Assange killed, even if he somewhat garbled what actually happened.
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Nearly ten years after a fatal Memorial Day weekend shooting, the gunman has been sentenced to prison.
Bushwick resident David Cruz was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison for shooting William Perez point-blank on May 25, 2015, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
Cruz was convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in November, after a jury trial.
“Today’s sentence brings the defendant to justice for a reprehensible act of violence,” Gonzalez said in a statement. “It should also send a strong message that shooting guns in our streets cannot and will not be tolerated, and that my office is committed to holding to account anyone who commits crimes that ruin lives and jeopardize public safety in Brooklyn.”
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez condemned gun violence in Brooklyn. File photo by Amanda Moses
According to the DA’s office, the victim, Perez, was on his way to a Memorial Day barbecue in East New York with friends when he “crossed paths” with Cruz and two associates.
Just before 9 p.m., one of Perez’ friends, a 22-year-old, was shot multiple times, and the group fled down the street. Perez, though, turned back toward the corner where his friend had been shot, and Cruz caught up with him — then shot him once in the back.
Cruz fled the scene and threw the gun into the front yard of a daycare nearby, according to the DA. Perez was taken to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
An investigation identified Perez as the likely shooter, and he was arrested in 2018. A previous jury trial ended in mistrial, per the DA.
