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HuffPo Hires NFL Playing 9/11 Truther

Donte Stallworth to cover national security.

Professional football player and (former) 9/11 truther Donte Stallworth has a new addition to his résumé: Huffington Post national-security journalist. Stallworth is an unsigned free agent in the NFL and has publicly expressed his skepticism that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks and that the Pentagon was hit by a plane. “NO WAY 9/11 was carried out by ‘dying’ bin Laden, 19 men who couldn’t fly a damn kite. STILL have NO EVIDENCE Osama was connected, like Iraq,” he tweeted in 2009. He also tweeted, “Gggrrrrrrrrrrrrr @ ppl who actually believe a plane hit the pentagon on 9/11... hole woulda been ASTRONOMICALLY bigger, God bless lost lives.” Huffington Post Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim said Stallworth “has a quick mind, an insatiable curiosity, and a passion for politics—the necessary qualities of a great journalist.” He also said the 9/11 tweets do not represent “how he thinks today.”