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Speaking of Rodham Clinton and national security, it was an odd correction that ABC anchor Elizabeth Vargas announced about David Wright's (embargoed link) reporting: "Friday on this broadcast, we referred to retired Army General Jack Keane as a Hillary Clinton supporter. Not true. While Keane has advised Senator Clinton, he has also advised several other candidates also making a run for the White House."
What is odd--something that neither Wright nor Vargas mentioned--is that Jack Keane is on the payroll at ABC News as a national security consultant, according to both ABC News' Political Radar blog and the retired general's own consultancy.
Shouldn't ABC News have severed ties with an in-house consultant it understood to be consulting simultaneously with a Presidential campaign? How could Keane properly serve both ABC's viewers and Rodham Clinton's campaign, as Wright erroneously believed? Or does Vargas' correction mean that ABC News does not even bother to keep tabs on what its consultants' political activities are--that the relationship had to be clarified retroactively, not known in advance?
This appears to be either negligence in supervision or indifference to conflict interest. Either way it seems sketchy.
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