Al-Shabaab Hacks MN Welfare Process
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It’s aggressively partisan, conflates storylines, uses flawed logic, and a variety of other journalistic malfeasance. There does appear to be welfare fraud, but this site does not appear to be a good place to learn about it.
The original article is clearly very loaded, but it's also the type of story that the mainstream media hates picking up: massive welfare fraud being used to fund terrorist groups in Somalia gores at least half a dozen sacred cows. This should receive a lot more attention, and, if true, heads should roll (and not low level managers and workers).
It's totally plausible some of that money wound up with a Somali terrorist organization.
Sure, but all of this:
>conflates storylines, uses flawed logic, and a variety of other journalistic malfeasance
...combined with the Manhattan Institute's ideological priors don't really help.