Post by fearnot on May 17, 2023 10:04:25 GMT -5
Durham's 'Russiagate' Report Is Damning for the Media, Too
A truthful witness saves lives,
But he who utters lies is treacherous.
Proverbs 14:25
Special Counsel John Durham dropped a bombshell on Monday. "Russiagate"—
the biggest media story
on the planet for four years—
was never justified by the evidence.
Durham's scathing report,
the FBI initiated its investigation of former president Donald Trump's 2016
campaign without sufficient proof of collusion
and then
ignored mounting contrary evidence.
Durham criticized the FBI for relying on
the later-debunked Steele dossier
to get a warrant to surveil Trump's campaign;
for coziness with Hillary Clinton,
Trump's Democratic opponent;
and
for repeatedly accepting information from anti-Trump sources,
if not showing the same bias itself.
Each of Durham's findings of FBI misconduct could be—
and have been—applied to the corporate press,
which breathlessly reported
each twist in the FBI's false narrative
and helped to drive American politics off a cliff.
Reliance on the Steele dossier:
Like the FBI, media outlets
touted the most salacious allegations
compiled by former British spy Christoper Steele
on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
While the FBI ignored concerns about alleged election interference regarding Hillary Clinton's campaign,
according to Durham,
the media let the Democrat spout off, largely unchallenged, about her supposed certainty that the 2016 election was rigged against her.
(The reaction was a little different when Trump questioned his loss in 2020.)
freebeacon.com/media/media-durham-trump-russia/
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