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How The New York Times Bungled the Hillary Clinton Emails Story (wow, this is damning)
http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-new-york-times-emails-357246Kurt Eichenwald
What the hell is happening at The New York Times?
In March, the newspaper published a highly touted article about Hillary Clintons use of a personal email account that, as I wrote in an earlier column, was wrong in its major points. The Timess public editor defended that piece, linking to a lengthy series of regulations that, in fact, proved the allegations contained in the article were false. While there has since been a lot of partisan hullaballoo about email-bogus-gatesomething to be expected when the story involves a political partys presidential front-runnerthe reality remained that, when it came to this story, there was no there there.
Then, on Thursday night, the Times dropped a bombshell: Two government inspectors general had made a criminal referral to the Justice Department about Clinton and her handling of the emails. The story was largely impenetrable, because at no point did it offer even a suggestion of what might constitute a crime. By Friday morning, the Times did what is known in the media trade as a skin backthe article now said the criminal referral wasnt about Clinton but about the departments handling of emails. Still, it conveyed no indication of what possible crime might be involved.
The story seemed to further fall apart on Friday morning when Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) issued a statement saying that he had spoken to the inspector general of the State Department and that there had been no criminal referral regarding Clintons email usage. Rather, Cummings said, the inspectors general for State and the intelligence community had simply notified the Justice Departmentwhich issues the regulations on Freedom of Information Act requeststhat some emails subject to FOIA review had been identified as classified when they had not previously been designated that way.
So had the Times mixed up a criminal referrala major news eventwith a notification to the department responsible for overseeing FOIA errors that might affect some documents release? Its impossible to tell, because the Times storycomplete with its lack of identification of any possible criminal activitycontinues to mention a criminal referral.
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How The New York Times Bungled the Hillary Clinton Emails Story (wow, this is damning) (Original Post)
swag
Jul 2015
OP
I'm no fan of Hillary, but the MSM looks idiotic carrying water for the right like this
yurbud
Jul 2015
#4
They are guppies, swallowing the first anonymous bullshit someone hands them. nt
bemildred
Jul 2015
#6
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)1. Is this why Joe is warming up to run?
To replace Hillary if this keeps getting traction and it starts
hurting her in the polls? <-- My 100% baseless & speculative question
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. Absolutely incredible hatchet job on Hillary. Worthy
of the Wall Street Journal or Fux News, not a paper with the (former) reputation of the Times.
murielm99
(30,780 posts)3. I'm not surprised this smear fell apart.
They have been pushing this one almost as hard as Benghazi.
Take not, HRC detractors on DU. You lose another round.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)4. I'm no fan of Hillary, but the MSM looks idiotic carrying water for the right like this
bemildred
(90,061 posts)6. They are guppies, swallowing the first anonymous bullshit someone hands them. nt
sorechasm
(631 posts)7. Has Judith Miller returned to the Times?
Did her editors ever leave? Do they have any regrets about igniting wars with propaganda?
Fish stinks from the head down.