The Washington Post faces lingering questions as liberal columnist Max Boot is caught up in a potential media scandal.
The Justice Department charged Boot’s wife, Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst and senior official at the National Security Council, last week with acting as a secret agent for South Korea’s intelligence service in exchange for luxury gifts.
The indictment alleged that Terry accepted lavish gifts in exchange for pushing South Korean government positions during media appearances, sharing private information with intelligence officers and facilitating meetings to allow South Korean officials to be granted access to US officials, without registering as a foreign agent.
She has denied the charges.
Boot, an ex-Republican opinion columnist for the Post, has co-authored five pieces for the paper with his wife, all related to Korean issues.
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