[mtbopfuyn]

THE OFFICIALS DECIDE THEY CANNOT PASS THIS INFORMATION ALONG TO THE FBI, IN PART BECAUSE THE MEN ARE HOLDING VALID U.S. VISAS AND MAY BE OFF LIMITS FROM INTELLIGENCE GATHERING BY THE MILITARY

Setting aside the shoddy reporting and twisting the facts, that sentence in itself makes no sense.

[js1138]

It would be helpful if you identified the shoddy part and the part that doesn't make sense.

If it is untrue or unsupported, it is shoddy, but it makes sense to me. Transcripts often read poorly because spoken dialog is not grammatically clean.

[Jedidah]

"Setting aside the shoddy reporting and twisting the facts, that sentence in itself makes no sense."

Huh?

Having twice watched that part of the program, I find the quoted sentence both to be well-constructed and to make perfect sense when considered in context. The National Geographic special was excellent, in my opinion.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Whether it makes sense or not, it is what was said. So what is your point?

[angcat]

That’s what they said, heard it with my own ears last night as I watched part 1 for the second time. I work up this morning with a headache and it is from reliving this nightmare. No one at my job watched this I believe I was the only one. You see liberals did not watch this nor do they care. If it were a Hollywood version they would have all been discussing this by the coffee pot this morning.

[JCEccles]

It makes perfect sense.

And it would be "shoddy reporting" only if the statement inaccurately or incompletely summarizes what was said by "the officials." Do you have superior knowledge of what "the officials" said?

[Ichneumon]

that sentence in itself makes no sense.

The sentence in itself is grammatically correct and easy to parse.

Perhaps the fault lies on your end of the internet connection.