{"id":80162,"date":"2018-06-25T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80162"},"modified":"2018-06-25T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:56:42","slug":"talia-lavin-fact-checker-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80162","title":{"rendered":"Talia Lavin; fact checker resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, Talia Lavin, a fact checker for the New Yorker was unable to check herself before she slandered Afghanistan veteran, Justin Gaertner, a double amputee Marine Corps veteran, pictured above during the 2012 Warrior Games. The wounded warrior is now an ICE employee, a computer forensic analyst who tracks down online pedophiles for ICE and other agencies. He works for a program known as the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative Child-Rescue Corps or HERO.<\/p>\n

Lavin’s problem with Gaertner is the tattoo he has on his elbow in this picture;<\/p>\n

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Lavin, in her ignorance, claimed that the Iron Cross-shaped image is a Nazi symbol. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

ICE strongly pushed back against the unfounded allegations, going as far as to demand the apology from Lavin for \u201cbaselessly slandering an American hero\u201d and pointing it out that the tattoo on the veteran\u2019s left elbow has nothing to do with Nazi Germany at all.<\/p>\n

In fact, said ICE last week, it is \u201cthe \u2018Titan 2,\u201d the symbol for his platoon while he fought in Afghanistan. \u201cThe writing on his right arm is the Spartan Creed, which is about protecting family and children.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lavin apologized and resigned from her fact checking job.<\/p>\n

“This has been a wild and difficult week,” she wrote in now-deleted tweet last week. “I owe ICE agent Justin Gaertner a sincere apology for spreading a rumor about his tattoo. However, I do not think it is acceptable for a federal agency to target a private citizen for a good faith, hastily rectified error.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Her intent was to get Gaertner fired, but she didn’t like it when ICE defended him and that resulted in her termination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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