Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon's repeated use of anonymous, high-level sources in her dispatches from Iraq has raised further concerns that her sexual relationship with former National Security Council member Brett McGurk—now President Obama's nominee for ambassador to Iraq—won her unprecedented insider access.
Chon and McGurk appear to have engaged in a clandestine, months-long relationship in 2008 as the latter led high-level security negotiations with the Iraqis, according to a set of recently unearthed email exchanges between the couple, who are now married.
Chon frequently relied on a singular American source in her reports about the U.S.-Iraqi security negotiations, leaving open the possibility that McGurk traded sensitive information for sexual favors. The untoward reporter-source relationship only adds to the growing controversy over McGurk's nomination.
