Posted on 03/05/2023 9:52:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Washington Post and Rolling Stone issued corrections on stories about the House Republican-led Weaponization of Government Subcommittee after making claims about FBI whistleblower and former agent Stephen Friend.
The Washington Post's correction, which was added to the top of an article published Friday titled "Democrats challenge credibility of GOP witnesses who embrace false Jan. 6 claims," stated: "An earlier version of this article erroneously said former FBI official Stephen Friend had not reported to a supervisor one of his concerns related to the use of a SWAT team in arrests related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riots. He said he did tell the supervisor, but he did not mention it in a written declaration, according to a report from Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. The article has been corrected."
The article now states that as an FBI case agent in Florida, Friend objected to the use of a SWAT team to arrest five people suspected of being members of a militia-type group over their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot.
As Friend had spoken with his supervisor about his concerns, the original story had incorrectly stated: "Friend told the subcommittee in his testimony that he had objected because the men had indicated they would cooperate with the FBI, but he didn’t mention that to his supervisor at the time."
Rolling Stone's correction, which was placed at the end of the article "Inside Jim Jordan’s Disastrous Search for a 'Deep State' Whistleblower," states: "This story has been corrected to reflect that Steven Friend’s security clearance was suspended."
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
What about Ray Epps. There are numerous of Ray Epps and several of his cohorts with bull horns encouraging protesters to storm the Capitol but no charges have ever been filed.
Maybe next week something might break.
“Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson said that based on the January 6 tapes that his team has been reviewing, he believes that the government has been “lying” to the American public.
“They are lying,” Carlson told his audience on Thursday night. “And we know that because we’ve been looking at the tape.”
In a controversial move, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy handed over more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from inside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, to Carlson, granting Fox exclusive access to the tapes. McCarthy said that after Carlson is done reviewing the videos, he would make them more widely available to the public.
On Thursday, Carlson said he would share information about the tapes with his viewers as early as next week, teasing that it would be “really, really interesting.”
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And The Scaffold Commander!
I am so old I remember when “Whistle-blowers” were anonymous heroes who were righteous and whose statements could not be questioned. Gee.
Their identities could not be revealed and any statement they made would be important enough to impeach even a sitting President.
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