Posted on 12/24/2019 9:17:58 AM PST by Kaslin
As the media-deep state Russia Hoax unravels, two journalists deserve special attention: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, was the first to break the story that the FBI was investigating Carter Page. Hosenball, now a correspondent with Reuters, was first to break the story that candidate Donald Trump was being advised, as the Reuters headline tells us, “By Ex-U.S. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn--Who Favors Closer Russia Ties.” The “closer ties” that worry me, however, are those between America’s intelligence community (IC) and reporters like these two.
I first met Isikoff and Hosenball in Newsweek’s cramped Washington office in 2003. I was there promoting a book I had just coauthored with James Sanders on TWA Flight 800, the 747 that blew up off the south coast of Long Island in July 1996. I knew Isikoff largely through his reporting on the Lewinsky affair. Hosenball I knew for his role, witting or otherwise, as the CIA’s chief propagandist in the TWA 800 investigation.
In the way of background, in November 1997 the FBI showed a CIA-produced animation to discredit the hundreds of credible eyewitnesses to a missile strike on the aircraft. Hosenball fell hard for the CIA video. Under his byline, Newsweek ran a fully affirmative, nine-frame, full-color recreation captioned with the unlikely boast, “CIA Photos.”
Hosenball assured his readers that what the witnesses really saw was not a missile but the fuselage of the burning, climbing plane rocketing upwards some three-thousand-plus feet after the fuel tank exploded. The CIA analysts convinced Hosenball that “infrared images captured by spy satellites” showed this preposterous scenario during the plane’s last 49 seconds.
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Wonder which offshore bank accounts Michael Isikoff uses for his money?
I was just talking about all the crimes of the Clinton admin
TWA 800 was a big one. Total coverup
Waco
Ruby ridge
Ron brown
FBI files
White water
Vince foster
Mena
Travel gate
Firing all us attorneys
Loral space co
Johnny trie
Add on Freepers ! Ping to Clinton crimes !
Ruby Ridge happened under Bush.
Hosenball? I’m sorry, but that is just an unfortunate name.
True the hearings and cover-up were under clinton
What else has this Mark Hosenball (Reuters) guy authored? Cashill paints him as a likely long-term CIA mouth-piece. What the mouthpieces said and when gives away the coup timeline — this article has Hosenball pushing coup material in Feb 2016.
I remember these two lumps of dog excrement well from the impeachment wars of 1998-99.
Hosenbag was enough of a POS during the impeachment wars of 1998-99 to get my attention.
The band plays "Party in My Pants" whenever he shows up.
I think his name was Hoobastank before he changed it.
“Spike” Isikoff learned in January of 1998, that in order to get his stories published, and make a name for himself in journalism, he had to fabricate lies, and specifically focus those lies on Republicans.
That whole wasps’ nest of Newsweek liars and cheats, Isakoff, Jonathan Alter, Fareed Zakaria, the simpering panty-boy Jon Meacham et al., deserve to be publicly denounced and placed in stocks on the on the steps of of the Capital Building.
Scoundrels, cowards, traitors.
At the time I thought it was an odd move but it quickly made sense. He would use the aptly titled podcast to plant political narratives for the Democrats.
BTW, one of his early podcasts was to explain his relationship with Christopher Steele.
Curiously the Skullduggery Podcast is not reported on his wikipeda page. In fact his wikipedia bio is amazingly small.
“The first to break the story.” What a crock!
Breaking a story means sitting around on your a$$ when some politician, usually a Democrat, hands you the typed pages of what they want you to print. Then you print it for them.
Next you get a Pulitzer Prize
What a crock!
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