Posted on 12/03/2019 8:07:46 AM PST by george76
Catherine Herridge .. notes that long after filing whistleblower complaint that failed to disclose prior contacts with the staff of Adam Schiff – probably a matter of lying in a sworn statement, and therefore criminal conduct – the still unnamed (in the MSM but widely believed to be Eric Ciaramella)
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the anonymous whistleblower reached out to the intelligence community watchdog on October 8 to clarify the nature of his or her contact with Democratic majority staff of the House Intelligence Committee before the complaint was filed.
The whistleblower acknowledged reaching out to the committee, but claimed that nothing substantial was discussed
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This is a CYA move made after those contacts were discovered
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How does a person get procedural advice without “disclosing” the complaint to the person giving the procedural advice?
This evidence of criminal conduct in failing to accurately answer specific questions on the complaint form requires that the so-called “whistleblower” testify before the House Judiciary Committee about the open impeachment hearings. It also should be fodder for the DOJ investigation of the leaker-called-a-whistleblower, including subpoenas to Schiff’s staffer(s) who dealt with him so as to definitively identify him under penalty of law.
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If they are serious about “rebuilding” they need to retire those commie centenarians on 60 Minutes.
You got that right
The only reason I can see CBS hiring her is to spike her stories, and keep her from reporting on legitimate stories, and keep her from working at legitimate news organizations.
After all, the motto of CBS News, thanks to Dan Rather, is “just because the evidence has been faked, doesn’t mean it’s not true!”
Mark
I’ve lived this stuff but you’ve gone very deep into a line of thought to be rid of Sullivan and that’s a bold statement.
IMHO, maybe more of the problem is the monopoly aspects which puts media and DNC Media into a few hands.
Wouldn’t it be easier from a legal standpoint to handle the problem on that route.
So the Senate will call this leaker and Schiff and the Bidens and a few others, take a week, expose their malarkey, vote no.
I thought it was Ed Henry who donated part of his liver.
Is she trying to get terminated?
CBS going under new control. Perhaps a bit of hope for it to be improving.
That is one reason Lara Logan is now with FoxCentral.
God Bless Katherine Herridge - that took a TON of guts to make that report on CBS. The anchor didn’t even act like she understood what Herridge was saying.
Note that report is now almost two weeks old - I would like to see what she has done at CBS lately.
ltr
Just get rid of 60 Minutes all together. It’s always been a show for the uniformed and misinformed. And it’s long been only watched by old people. Useless.
It’s a bold statement to say that nine SCOTUS justices were wrong on the same case. But then, what I’m telling you about Sullivan is only what Antonin Scalia said about it. And when Scalia was a freshman Justice, he wrote a solo dissent in the Morrison v. Olson case - and now the majority opinion is considered bad law, and Scalia’s dissent is considered probative.IMHO, maybe more of the problem is the monopoly aspects which puts media and DNC Media into a few hands.
Wouldn’t it be easier from a legal standpoint to handle the problem on that route.
I see your point but I disagree with it. By all means make the antitrust case against “the media” - I’m 100% on board with that. But if you do sue on that ground, what is the tort?IMHO the tort is the systematic promotion of the bias of journalism, by means of unlimited libeling conservatives.
The bias of journalism is that journalism is important. But inherently journalism is negativity towards society, and that inherently promotes big government.
Sullivan should, on reasonable grounds, be seen as wrongly decided. But the point is not that it’s wrong, the point is that it is the engine of political correctness. It means that journalists can lie about facts. Not just be wrong on this occasion or that, but systematically practice on the credulity of the public.
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander HamiltonSullivan gives “the MSM” license to "flatter [the peoples’] prejudices to betray [the peoples’] interests.”
You bit off quite a bit here. I’m not making any tort argument against a (DNC) media monopoly but it’s easier against the publishers of Goolag, Twatter and TheftBook.
That’s where I’ll leave it for now.
Thanks for your thorough background on Scalia and the rest of this.
I miss Catherine’s reporting a lot! Fox really stepped on their neck-tie when they lost this honest reporter....there is just so much a person with integrity like C.H. can take.
“The” freedom of the press - all rights enumerated in the first eight amendments - were traditional under common law. And as such, rights were traditionally limited. “The” freedom of the press was traditionally limited by libel law.
So how does this “Traditional Limitation” apply to say... the 2nd?
I think that Scalia said so in his decision in the DC 2nd Amendment case.
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