Posted on 02/01/2018 11:05:27 AM PST by Kaslin
All three networks on Thursday hyped the “escalating” fight over a “controversial,” “bombshell” congressional memo set to be released alleging surveillance abuses against the Trump 2016 campaign. ABC’s Good Morning America touted Democratic “outrage.” At the same time this story developed, ABC and NBC ignored what should be big news: The revelation that the FBI in fall of 2016 waited a month before telling Congress of additional Hillary Clinton e-mails.
On Good Morning America, reporter Cecilia Vega trumpeted, “While some Republicans say the memo casts a shadow over the integrity of the Russia investigation, Democrats are outraged.” She then featured Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley deriding, “This is the President of the United States acting to defend himself legally and politically at the expense of our national security.”
Nets: Democrats ‘Outraged’ as ‘Bombshell,’ ‘Controversial’ Memo Set to Be ReleasedNets: Democrats ‘Outraged’ as ‘Bombshell,’ ‘Controversial’ Memo Set to Be Released
Over on CBS This Morning, Major Garrett fretted: “House Republicans drafted this memo by themselves, altering the long standing, bipartisan tradition of the Intelligence Committee. No one here or on Capitol Hill will say if this White House participated in any way in drafting of the memo.”
Yet, CBS offered a more balanced report than the other two networks. After co-host John Dickerson noted that “Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff asked Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to withdraw [the memo],” co-host Gayle King responded that “Republicans call [that] a bizarre distraction.”
On NBC’s Today, reporter Kristen Welker asserted that Trump is “in an all out showdown with the FBI.” She added, “Democrats are also crying foul. They're trying to block its release.” Welker added:
“But all signs suggest the President's mind may be made up this morning, building towards a potential bombshell. That controversial Republican memo will likely be released as early as today.”“But all signs suggest the President's mind may be made up this morning, building towards a potential bombshell. That controversial Republican memo will likely be released as early as today.”
Only CBS Covers Bombshell That FBI Waited a Month to Tell Congress About New Hillary E-Mails
Top FBI officials were aware for at least a month before alerting Congress that emails potentially related to an investigation of Hillary Clinton had emerged during a key stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to text messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had learned about the thousands of emails by Sept. 28, 2016, and Director James Comey informed Congress about them on Oct. 28, 11 days before the presidential election, the messages show.
During the 30 day delay, the 2016 vice presidential debate occurred (October 4,), the second and third presidential debates (October 9 and October 19). Certainly, the e-mails would have come up, had the subject been public.
In a 42 second brief, co-host Dickerson summarized: “A former FBI official tells CBS news that agents complained that the bureau's leaders were slow to move on the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation.” He added: “CBS News confirms agent Peter Strzok is involved in that. Strzok is under investigation for sending anti-Trump e-mails while running the Clinton e-mail probe.”
Despite a combined six hours of available air time, ABC and NBC couldn’t be bothered to cover this latest story on Clinton's e-mails.
CBS This Morning 2/1/18 7:06:35 to 7:07:17 42 seconds
JOHN DICKERSON: A former FBI official tells CBS news that agents complained that the bureau's leaders were slow to move on the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation. The former employee spoke after a Wall Street Journal report that retiring deputy director Andrew McCabe and other FBI officials waited at least a month before telling Congress about the newly discovered Clinton e-mails. Then-Director James Comey announced he was reopening the investigation in a letter sent 11 days before the presidential election. CBS News confirms agent Peter Strzok is involved in that. Strzok is under investigation for sending anti-Trump e-mails while running the Clinton e-mail probe.
Good Morning America
2/1/18 7:01:41-7:05:12am
STEPHANOPOULOS: We’ve also got a lot of other news to get to starting with that high stakes battle over the classified Republican memo that criticizes the FBI and the justice department over the Russia investigation. President Trump wants it released to the public. The FBI has questions about its accuracy and the compromising of classified information. Our Senior White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega has all the latest on the showdown. Good morning, Cecilia.
CECILIA VEGA: George, good morning to you. That memo this morning is right here at the White House and despite that warning from the FBI, sources here tell us the president is still expected to release it. As soon as today President Trump's showdown with his own FBI director could come to a head if he releases that controversial classified memo accusing the Justice Department of political bias. The microphones catching the president's pledge to a Republican congressman.
GOP CONGRESSMAN: Just release the memo.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oh, yeah, don't worry, 100%.
VEGA: And Chief of Staff John Kelly promising the same.
JOHN KELLY: It'll be released here pretty quick I think and the whole world can see it.
VEGA: In an extraordinary public clash with the White House, the FBI warned against releasing that memo saying officials only had a limited chance to review it and, quote, “we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy.” Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee wrote the four-page memo and sources tell ABC news it alleges the Justice Department acted inappropriately when it obtained a surveillance warrant to spy on a Trump campaign adviser suspected of being a Russian agent. While some Republicans say the memo casts a shadow over the integrity of the Russia investigation, Democrats are outraged.
ADAM SCHIFF: This is the President of the United States acting to defend himself legally and politically at the expense of our national security.
Trump is playing them like a fiddle
Then it will DROP on them like a sledgehammer
Those worried about the enemy media taking the narrative
Remember that at this point only the fools would even listen to those idiots anyway
the Dems are circling the wagons - hope they all go down together....
I don’t think Trump will accept any redactions.
Ah... Now it’s “The Republican Memo”
There fixed it to reflect reality. I suppose that is another crime the Democrats will want another special counsel to investigate as well.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: If the GOP memo is as advertised we’ll see the deep state at its most frightening!
I have argued for a few weeks now that House Intelligence Committee members have committed misconduct in office by concealing evidence of spying abuses by the National Security Agency and the FBI. They did this by sitting on a four-page memo that summarizes the abuse of raw intelligence data while Congress was debating a massive expansion of FISA.
FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which was written to enable the federal government to spy on foreign agents here and abroad. Using absurd and paranoid logic, the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which only hears the government’s lawyers, has morphed “foreign intelligence surveillance” into undifferentiated bulk surveillance of all Americans.
Undifferentiated bulk surveillance is the governmental acquisition of fiber-optic data stored and transmitted by nearly everyone in America. This includes all telephone conversations, text messages and emails, as well as all medical, legal and financial records.
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The exempt class, suckled for 8 years on the teat of the “most transparent administration ever” feels they should be exempt from disclosing their activities (shenanigans).
No surprises here.
Bttt.
5.56mm
ABC and NBC ignored what should be big news: The revelation that the FBI in fall of 2016 waited a month before telling Congress of additional Hillary Clinton e-mails.
Bipartisanship? Like the way the CommieCare bill was drafted? And then Pelosi said it had to be passed before they could see what was in it?
“only the fools would even listen to those idiots anyway”
Obama was reelected. Lots of fools out there.
“This is the President of the United States acting to defend himself legally and politically at the expense of our national security.”
Could they be more clear? ‘We can plant evidence against you while undermining national security, but you can’t fight back because, well .. national security.’
They started it without concern about national security!
POTUS is supposed to just take his lumps from a few corrupt, politically motivated higher-ups at the DOJ/FBI and he has the gall to fight back legally. Imagine that.
Anybody who doesn’t visit Truthfeed at least occasionally is missing out.
‘Adam Schiff has truly proven himself to be bumbling doofus this past couple of weeks, so much so, that he’s now trending on Twitter with the hilarious hashtag #FullofSchiff.’
http://truthfeednews.com/lol-schiffs-wacky-behavior-just-earned-him-a-top-trending-twitter-hashtag/
If you pay no attention to them whatsoever and follow the YouTubers, Twitter conspiracy theorists and a few selected blogs, you'll be 3 months ahead of the stories proving to be true. The commie, perv, mutt media just put barriers in your way. I'm always two weeks ahead of Fox at least, unless it's Sara Carter's story.
Sometimes all it takes for a Dem to get elected is to be able to smile and wave.
Everything we knew then, we still know now (details just become sharper) except the cover is blown, yet the question remains: What are WE going to do about it?
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