What’s it like if a bomb goes off in a newsroom, like a tree falling in the woods, but Trump-hating reporters never hear it? A media watchdog watched that happen in recent days when a story broke tying Hillary Clinton and a powerful law firm to computer spying and lying to the FBI.
Special Counsel John Durham dropped a bombshell allegation over the weekend: Hillary Clinton and her 2016 presidential campaign used law firm Perkins Coie to hire a computer specialist to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign for information they could use to claim he was “colluding” with Russia.
Even worse, the allegation suggests, that spying may have continued when Trump entered the White House as president.
Durham’s role as special counsel is to basically investigate the investigators. He is tracking down the origins of the “Russia collusion” allegation against Trump after the public learned last year the FBI ignored evidence Trump was the victim of a dirty, politically-motivated campaign by Clinton and her cronies, and not a traitor to his country.
To date, Durham has indicted two people so far. He charged FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith for changing a key email in an effort to convince the super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to continue spying on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Clinesmith, who never revealed why he doctored the document or if someone ordered him to do it, pleaded guilty last summer to changing it. He received only probation.
Durham has also indicted Michael Sussmann, a Washington, D.C. attorney, for lying to an FBI agent. Sussman claimed he was not working for a client when he met with the FBI to hand over documents that he said tied Trump to Russia and a U.S.-based bank. In fact, Sussmann was employed by Perkins Coie, the powerful D.C. law firm that was overseeing the Clinton presidential campaign and was heavily involved in pushing the “Russia collusion” claims in the Trump-hating national media and at the Dept. of Justice.
The public was never supposed to know about that backroom political machine, GOP lawmakers have pointed out, because Donald Trump was never supposed to win the White House. But he did and now the truth is coming out thanks to Durham’s probe.
Fox News reported on ‘Factual Background’
So the latest court filing from Durham — a computer hacker was paid by the Clinton campaign, via a powerful D.C. law firm, to spy on Donald Trump — should make for some pretty big news, but Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center says the public heard nothing but crickets for hours and days. The major networks ABC, CBS, and NBC sat on the story over the weekend, he says.
“But in contrast we found that they spent over eight minutes,” Houck says, “talking about a possible Russian doping scandal at the Olympics.”
The media, in fact, sat on the jaw-dropping allegation while Fox News solely reported on the key “Factual Background” from the Friday court filing. It is that “Background” information, a Fox News story explained, where Durham’s investigation goes into great detail to tie Sussmann to an unnamed tech executive from an Internet company. The court filing alleges Sussmann and the tech executive used several Internet companies, and a U.S. university with a cyber security contract, to spy on the Trump campaign’s computers.
According to the Durham indictment, Sussmann and that executive later met with attorney Marc Elias, who was general counsel to the Clinton campaign, to share the allegations Sussmann later handed over to the FBI.
American Family News, which uses the Associated Press wire service for national news, published its own story on Durham’s probe. That story, which can be read here, cites the Fox News story.
The AFN story also linked to an eye-opening 2016 Twitter post from Clinton that praised “computer scientists” for linking Donald Trump to a Russia-owned bank.
Times and Post published ‘analysis’
On Tuesday, four days after Fox News broke the news about the computer spying, NBC News summarized Durham’s allegations in an accurate Twitter post. The news outlet describes how a tech executive is accused of using his access to the White House to dig up “derogatory information” about then-President Trump.
That belated news story set off a flurry of social media posts asking why the news network had sat on the story throughout the weekend.
“They took three days to come up with a carefully coordinated propaganda response,” The Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway wrote, “and hoped to avoid even acknowledging [it].”
After jumping out in front of the story late last week, Fox News pointed out today that the media was belatedly reporting on Durham’s allegations with some tricky gimmicks that downplay or ignore Durham’s allegations.
The New York Times skipped right past reporting on the allegations but published a “news analysis” that faulted “right-wing outlets” for pushing a narrative that is “off track.”
The Washington Post went with the “analysis” angle, too, that suggested Trump may have been the victim of “very broad sort of spying” that cannot be tied directly to Hillary Clinton.
Over at liberal NPR, the news outlet downplayed the Durham probe itself as a big flop. Clinesmith was a “low-level” FBI attorney, NPR said, and Sussmann is facing just one count of making a false statement to the FBI.
Both the Times and the Post, Fox News pointed out, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Trump-Russia allegations and were praised for their “deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage.”
Four years after Donald Trump took office, all of that prize-winning “coverage” is now being revealed by Durham to be baseless claims that originated with the famously dirty Clintons.
According to MRC, which watched the media go wild over Trump-Russia collusion, those allegations were eagerly lapped up by the same national media is now ignoring how it was used to hurt Donald Trump.
Every single allegation and innuendo about Trump, Houck says, “turned out not to be true.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
There was a crooked Hillary, and she walked a crooked style.
She found a crooked kickback, upon a Russian pile.
She bought a crooked rat, from a Law firm Perkins Cole,
And they all lived together rich upon the government dole.
Oh No don’t let the rain come down, our Media has a hole in it and we all might drown, and when the glass ceiling broke, we all got cut to shreds when that ceiling finally came down.
LETS hope it all comes down for REAL, not just proverbially..
Four years after Donald Trump took office, all of that prize-winning “coverage” is now being revealed by Durham to be baseless claims that originated with the famously dirty Clintons.
According to MRC, which watched the media go wild over Trump-Russia collusion, those allegations were eagerly lapped up by the same national media is now ignoring how it was used to hurt Donald Trump.
It is past time that EVERYBODY is held accountable for their own actions!!
Democrat elite and the Democrat Party never take responsibility or are held accountable for their own unlawful, destructive, dishonorable, immoral actions. Democrats always blame someone or something else for their own actions. Even if the Democrats are caught “red handed”.
The traitorous, dishonest, destructive, socialist Democrat Party revolves around and its philosophy is based on Total Control, Hate, Lies, Cons, Deceptions, Immorality and the lack of Integrity, Ethics or Honor.
AND that should damn well include the COMPLICIT MEDIA..
John Dunham has done his work quietly without splashy public attention, his workman like tenacity is paying off and MSM realizes that it has its own little secrets that could soon involve them in the investigation. They can’t totally supress the revelations but are are trying to minimize their affect.
They got caught with their hands in the cookie jar—and those cookies were so delicious, they couldn’t get enough—they’re still holding on to handfuls. They put all their eggs in one basket and went for the big payoff—they didn’t count on getting caught. Once one starts telling lies, the ploy must be kept up, but keeping track of what has already been said becomes impossible to keep up—and with lies as big as the ones they have told, they can’t begin to make it look good for themselves.
Imagine the Washington D.C. media is a filthy kitchen that has not been cleaned in months. Walk in and “turn on the lights” and watch the cockroaches scatter into the darkness of crevices and cracks.
Sins of father or mother will be on their generations to come. Apparently she doesn’t care her grandchild may suffer because of selling her soul to satan. Forgone conclusion she is owned lock stock and barrel by the evil one.
That makes ME wonder. SURELY BILL and Chelsea, also knew about what was going on. SO WHY is no one discussing THEM in regards to this!/?
There is no crime bad enough for a democrat to be indicted or tried for under this rogue government.
Heck, even many repubicans get away with stuff, that you or i, would be rotting in jail for.
You are absolutely correct. We get more of a fine and hassle for not wearing a seatbelt, mask or both then they do for murder. That applies to both parties!
I remember a story from 07-08 neck of the woods, where one cop busted like 8 cars IN A ROW FOR drunk driving. 5 normal folk, one local Dem politician, and two local Rep politicians (forget which city it was though). AND ONLY THE FIVE NORMAL folk, got arrested. ALL 3 politicians were ‘let off with a warning’, even though ONE OF THEM, this was their 4th DUI….