Lee Stranahan, an investigative reporter who quit Breitbart News last month in protest, has landed an unusual new gig: doing a radio show for the Russian government-backed propaganda network Sputnik.
“I’m on the Russian payroll now, when you work at Sputnik you’re being paid by the Russians,” Stranahan told The Atlantic this week. “That’s what it is. I don’t have any qualms about it. Nothing about it really affects my position on stuff that I’ve had for years now.”
And already, Stranahan is kicking up quite a stir — repeating Russia and Syria’s assertion thatย Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not responsible for this week’s devastating chemical-weapon attack on 80 civilians in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun.