http://freebeacon.com/issues/john-podesta-said-wanted-cecil-lion-killer-extradited-jailed/
Lobbied former NYT reporter to write op-ed in favor of sending shooter back to Zimbabwe
John Podesta and the late Cecil / AP
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John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, wrote that the man who killed Cecil the Lion should be extradited to Zimbabwe and jailed, according to hacked emails posted online on Tuesday.
In an August 1, 2015 email to former New York Timesreporter Barry Bearak, Podesta suggested that Bearak write a column calling for Cecil the Lion’s killer to be sent back to Zimbabwe to face local authorities.
Bearak had conducted award-winning international reporting for the Times. Bearak also spent time in a Zimbabwean prison while covering the country’s 2008 elections and the resulting backlash against opposition forces by brutal leader Robert Mugabe.
Podesta said that experience made him the perfect person to write about Cecil the Lion.
“As the only person anyone knows who has spent time in a Zimbabwe jail, you should pen an oped calling for his killer’s extradition,” he wrote to Bearak.
“What an asshole,” Podesta continued.
