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What the IG report tells us
If we lived in a sane world in which people took responsibility for their failures, crows would be an endangered species today because of the vast amounts being eaten by the fake news legacy corporate propaganda media.
You’re not hearing it from the CNNs and MSNBCs of the world, but Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the abuse of processes by the FBI illegal spying campaign on President Donald Trump and his campaign has shown who is fake news and who is not. And it’s the legacy corporate propaganda media that have been lying to us for the last three-plus years about Trump.
We could give you enough examples to cause you to use up a month’s worth of data reading all of them if we wanted, but we’ll just you give a few of the most egregious examples of three years of MSM reporting and pontificating that the IG report showed to be false.
- Responding to a Trump tweet about then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking the IG to investigate abuse of FISA court system, former CIA spook, Barack Obama special assistant, Georgetown professor and current NBC contributor Ned Price tweeted: “Don’t take the bait by falling for or even accepting the premise. There was no ‘massive FISA abuse.'”
- On May 18, 2018, writing for The Week, Damon Linker wrote a screed claiming that The Federalist was “a vanguard of a thoroughly Trumpified Republican Party” because it was reporting that the Obama Administration was actively spying on four affiliates of the Trump campaign. The Federalist was way ahead of the rest of the media on uncovering FBI malfeasance. Scoffing at the notion that “federal law enforcement” couldn’t possibly be partisan, Linker posited, “The point, driven home again and again on the website, is that the investigation of Trump should never have been started and certainly shouldn’t have been expanded to include the appointment of a special counsel — because it was hopelessly, irredeemably tainted by partisanship from the beginning.” Turns out The Federalist was correct, not Linker.
- Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham made a criminal referral of Christopher Steele in January 2018 and received a lot of flak from it from the MSM, Democrat politicians and the #NeverTrump GOP-elite. Grassley took to Twitter last week to point out some of it and show how wrong they were. Senator Diane Feinstein claimed in a statement, “Not a single revelation in the Steele dossier has been refuted.” In the same statement she also claimed Steele “is a respected and reliable expert on Russia,” and “Mr. Steele came forward voluntarily out of concern for U.S. national security.” CNN’s Renato Mariotti said the criminal referral “doesn’t appear to be a legitimate effort to alert the FBI of criminal activity” and “The dossier isn’t bogus, since parts of it have been confirmed.” Faux conservative Jennifer Rubin, WaPo’s token “Republican,” claimed the referral was “entirely inappropriate” and it “raises a real question as to Grassley’s credibility.” Warmongering neocon Max Boot, the CFR’s spokespuppet, wrote, “Trump’s unwillingness to criticize Putin makes you wonder what hold the Kremlin has over him; the Steele dossier looks more credible all the time.” The truth is, Rubin and Boot, part of the GOP-e, look less credible every day.
- Way back in February 2018, Republican Representative Devin Nunes issued a report — now known as the Nunes memo — detailing how the FBI “may have relied on politically motivated or questionable sources” to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant in October 2016 and in three subsequent renewals on Trump adviser Carter Page in the early phases of the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.” Already a lightning rod to the left, Nunes was heavily criticized for creating a “conspiracy theory” that the FBI may have acted improperly. The MSM, almost as if they were all working from the same playbook, called Nunes everything but a white man and vilified him for daring to “carry Trump’s water” and peddle falsehoods. Even after the Department of Just(Us) released a trove of redacted documents related to the FISA warrants that showed Nunes was likely mostly correct, the MSM continued to pile on. The IG report completely vindicated Nunes. Meanwhile, Democrat Adam Schiff-for-brains — who had the same information Nunes had — went to the MSM over and over claiming Nunes was lying and the Steele report was entirely accurate and there was no abuse of the FISA system.
The MSM peddled these lies and repeated them ad naseum. But now we know who was lying to us in reporting on anonymous leaks and specious sources and doctored documents that allegedly showed Trump was conspiring with Russians and an asset of Vladimir Putin. It was CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, The New York Slimes and the rest of the Deep State talking heads and leftist punditry class.
In the last few days before the IG report was released, CNN, The Slimes, WaPo and other members of the MSM quoted unnamed sources (which is code for “we’re making it up) claiming the IG report would absolve the FBI of any wrongdoing. It didn’t, and in fact was a scathing rebuke of a rogue agency.
Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist tweeted, that “Today’s IG report debunks *years* of reporting based on leaks from intelligence officials. Russia collusion, Carter Page being a Russian asset, Steele being credible, and a thousand other things. How many days will media devote to balancing out their years of false reporting?”
I think we know the answer. We also know who has been telling the truth about this whole mess. It was Hemmingway and her co-workers at The Federalist, John Solomon of The Hill and Solomonreports.com, The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel, and the independent alternative media, including us at Bob Livingston Alerts.
Who really used Russians for election interference?
On December 12, Hillary Clinton tweeted the following:
“Make sure your family and friends see the evidence for themselves:
“The president asked a foreign power to interfere in the 2020 election for his own political gain.
“Americans deserve free and fair elections. He must be held accountable.”
In response, WSJ’s Kimberley Strassell tweeted:
Make sure family and friends see IG report: Clinton didn’t just invite foreign influence in 2016; she paid for it. Her team funneled Russian dossier lies to the FBI, for her political gain. Americans deserve free and fair elections. If only press would hold her accountable.
Don’t count on Clintons being held accountable for anything.
And to answer our own question, it was the Clinton campaign and the DNC who used Russian (and Ukrainian) agents, not Trump.
McClatchy stands by its Michael Cohen-Prague report
In a story published in April 2018, McClatchy News Service reported that investigators had traced Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to Prague where he was supposed to have met with Putin operatives on behalf of Trump in August or September of 2016. If true it would have legitimized one portion of the Steele dossier which claimed that Cohen was meeting with Russians on Trump’s behalf.
Quoting unnamed sources, the McClatchy report claimed Robert Mueller had obtained “evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier,” according to a WaPo analysis looking into how the media handled the Steele dossier in the wake of the IG report.
“Investigators have traced evidence that Cohen entered the Czech Republic through Germany, apparently during August or early September of 2016 as the ex-spy reported, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is confidential,” noted the story. In December 2018, the same reporters caused a stir with their report that Cohen’s mobile phone “sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016.” Also: An Eastern European intelligence agency, reported the McClatchy team, had eavesdropped on a conversation among Russians, including a comment that Cohen was in Prague.
Mueller denied the report in the days after the McClatchy story ran. But McClatchy stood by the report. Now that the IG report has shot down the entire Steele dossier as having been based on hearsay, bar talk, jokes and nonsense, McClatchy continues to stand by its false reporting.
“Until we have new reporting that tells us our old reporting is wrong, the story stands,” notes Jeanne Segal, a spokeswoman for the newspaper chain, in an email to the Erik Wemple Blog.
The Babylon Bee owns Snopes
Not in the financial sense, of course, but in the figurative sense, The Babylon Bee owns the “fact-checking” Snopes site. Snopes often feels the need to “fact-check” The Bee’s satirical articles. Well, it’s now reached a new level of ridiculous.
Last week The Bee published an article titled “House Dems Unveil Surefire Plan To Get Trump Reelected.” The article began:…WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Democrats today announced a new plan to ensure Trump wins the White House again in 2020. “We hereby unveil these articles of impeachment, which clearly lay out the undeniable fact that we will not win the White House back next year,” said Rep. Jerry Nadler. “We have found Tru…
Trump Senior Legal Advisor Jenna Ellis shared the tweet on her timeline, commenting that, “The Bee mocking the Dems: “We have found Trump guilty of absolutely nothing, but we already started this whole process and it would look bad to back out now, so here we are.” She included a laughing emoji and three hands-clapping emojis. Trump saw it and retweeted it.
Upon seeing Trump’s retweet, the scolds at Snopes emailed the following question to the White House:
“President Trump recently retweeted a post from @JennaEllisEsq containing a fake quote from an entertainment article. Was President Trump aware that this quote was fake when he sent it? If so, why wasn’t it accompanied by a message labeling the quote as fiction?”
Dummies. Everyone but the nincompoops at Snopes knows The Bee is just satire.
— Jay Baker
