NBC News Uses Unnamed Official Shtick to Discredit Russiagate Probe

Newsbusters ^ | August 7, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

It is becoming harder and harder for the media to ignore the Russiagate scandal. And that difficulty in journalism avoidance just became much more difficult with the announcement that Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury probe.

Unfortunately for them, the distraction excuse for not covering the Russia Hoax is becoming a worn routine and pretending that the damning material in the Durham annex, such as the email of Leonard Bernardo implicating Hillary Clinton as a perpetrator of the Russia Hoax along with high level intelligence officials, is really nothing more than Russian disinformation has already been thoroughly mocked when Rolling Stone attempted that pathetic excuse. So what to do? What to do?

Well, it appears that NBC News seems to have settled on citing supposedly authoritative officials in an attempt to discredit the Russiagate revelations. The big problem is that those officials are also unnamed as you can see presented on Monday by NBC News excuse mongers Michael Kosnar, Dan De Luce, David Rohde and Vaughn Hillyard in "Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama administration review of 2016 election."

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KEYWORDS: grandjury; nbcnews; russiagate

[PJ-Comix]

When you can't cite the facts then just quote UNNAMED officials.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...are these Experts or merely Persons Close To The Issue? Or maybe the Some that always Say?

[Red Badger]

When you can’t cite the facts then just MAKE STUFF UP..................

[Organic Panic]

Sources Say....

[bray]

My sources in the administration say...

[Soul of the South]

The sixth amendment to the Constitution gives the accused the right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.” This means the defendant can see and question the witnesses who testify against them. In addition the sixth amendment gives the accused the right to cross examine and challenge the credibility of witnesses against them.

If journalism today were truly a profession, and not a synonym for propagandists, news outlets would not print stories from anonymous sources. Reporters would demand accusers go on the record.

It is time for Republicans to band together and consistently and forcefully condemn the practice of making accusations based on unidentified sources. Simply say, “I will respond to your questions and accusations when you reveal your source and the source goes on the record. Until then, there is nothing credible to discuss.”