Alex Marquardt, who labored because the Chief National Security Correspondent for NCS since 2017, is departing the information community.
He posted the information on his X account, writing, “Some personal news: I’m leaving NCS after 8 terrific years. Tough to say goodbye but it’s been an honor to work among the very best in the business. Profound thank you to my comrades on the National Security team & the phenomenal teammates I’ve worked with in the US and abroad.”
He was lately concerned in a lawsuit filed towards NCS.
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U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young sued the community. According to THR, he was “awarded $5 million in a libel lawsuit against NCS over a 2021 report falsely portraying him as a profiteer running a ‘black market’ scheme to evacuate Afghans in the aftermath of the U.S. military withdrawal from the country.” Alex was apparently a “focus” on this lawsuit.
THR famous that that is what he discovered to be defamatory: “Reporter Alex Marquardt detailed how, following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and the collapse of the government, panicked locals turned to private contractors to help them flee the country. One such contractor was Zachary Young, a Navy Veteran whose firm was charging people hefty fees—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars—to escape the Taliban.”
Several different(*8*) this 12 months.