Headline Roundup • June 3rd, 2015
Twitter Fight Over Iran
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CNN Digital
A State Department spokeswoman battled a New York Times story on Iran's nuclear fuel stockpile on Wednesday with a line-by-line challenge of the article on Twitter.
State Department acting spokeswoman Marie Harf tweeted at David Sanger, one of two New York Times reporters who authored a story Tuesday about the stockpile, saying many central tenets of the story were "not true." The pair reported on an assessment from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a U.N. watchdog organization, that the stockpile had grown by 20%.
Vox
Twitter brings out the best in nobody, and this week that includes two of the most prominent people in Washington's national security establishment: New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger and State Department senior adviser Marie Harf.
Their Twitter fighting is ostensibly over a technical issue in the Iran negotiations; Sanger had published a story reporting Iran had developed new nuclear fuel, which he suggested was a m
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
With Western and Iranian negotiators racing toward a June 30 deadline to hammer out the final details of a nuclear deal, the mood is tense. Just take a look at Twitter TWTR +1.59%, where Secretary of State John Kerry’s senior communications adviser Marie Harf is feuding with a reporter.
David Sanger, a national security reporter at the New York Times NYT +1.06%, wrote a story earlier this week saying the growth of Tehran’s nuclear stockpile in the past 18 months of negotiations partially undercuts the Obama administration’s claim that Iran’s...
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