(TownHall) It was a shocking revelation in the profile piece done by Politico about Jennifer Ruth-Green, the Republican candidate running in Indiana’s first congressional district against Democratic incumbent Rep. Frank Mrvan.
It’s one of the more contested races this cycle, with Ruth-Green raising hordes of cash in a seat that a Republican in nearly 100 years hasn’t represented. There wasn’t anything necessarily wrong with the article until it got into her military record—Ms. Green is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Her sexual assault report was mentioned, despite Ms. Green asking Politico not to include it in their feature.
Ms. Green felt it was a smear job to denigrate her military service. Politico faced severe backlash when they said this information was obtained by a FOIA request, with all information being publicly available. That raised some eyebrows because sexual assault reports are not included in this category, prompting some to suggest that the publication could face serious legal issues. It got even worse for Politico, temporarily, when the Air Force said they had no FOIA record request about Ms. Green’s records.
These sensitive records were disclosed through malicious intent or a filing error. Ms. Green is a black conservative, which makes her a huge target for the progressive Left. She breaks all the rules of being a woman, black, and female. After days of speculation, we know who leaked the documents—it was the Air Force who apologized for the breach in protocols regarding the release of her confidential files (via The Hill):
