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CNN, MSNBC BURY FBI AGENTS GETTING FREEBIES FROM REPORTERS
The Daily Caller ^ | 3:08 AM 06/16/2018 | Amber Athey | Media and Breaking News Editor 4143 1140

Posted on 06/16/2018 7:53:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

CNN and MSNBC buried the inspector general report’s revelation that a number of FBI agents were receiving unauthorized free handouts, such as dinners and tickets, from reporters.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz noted in his report on the Clinton investigation, which was released Thursday, that his department found numerous instances in which FBI agents were improperly in contact with reporters and were receiving a number of free perks from their relationships. (RELATED: IG Report: FBI Agents Regularly Received Free Handouts From Journalists)

The department “identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters.”

FBI agents’ relationships with the media extended to “improperly receiving benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events” and could have encouraged some agents to leak information to the press, Horowitz implied in the report.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakenew; fbi; msm13
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To: seawolf101

You forgot the GOP

Reports, committees and sternly-worded letters aren’t getting the job done. More Kabuki for the masses. Eat you cake and shut up!

The swamp is not partisan; it is metastatic and corrupts all who associate with its denizens.


61 posted on 06/17/2018 7:50:55 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: cgbg

At this point how does anyone believe anything an a FBI agent or DOJ prosecutor says? And I really don’t believe anything they say in a courtroom. Unless the FBI and DOJ fire, prosecute and jail a gang of their own criminals they will never have any credibility with the people again. An hour of ethics training is their answer to all this corruption? WTH!


62 posted on 06/17/2018 8:38:50 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

bump


63 posted on 06/17/2018 8:39:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama used 'clingers'. Hillary vomited deplorable. FBI said lazy POS. Trump saw Americans.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Freebies = bribes


64 posted on 06/17/2018 8:41:35 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: Steely Tom
It’s OK because they didn’t intend to break the law.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

65 posted on 06/17/2018 8:43:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama used 'clingers'. Hillary vomited deplorable. FBI said lazy POS. Trump saw Americans.)
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To: cgbg
The are illegal and can and should lead to immediate termination and prosecution.

That's odd, others on this thread indicated it was all A-OK as long as the bribes/gifts are not, "Substantial".☺

I'd take a wild guess these agencies have two sets of standards, like they have when it comes to criminal law. One set for you and me, and one set for the insulated elite in government.

66 posted on 06/17/2018 9:08:34 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Cboldt

If a Russian were to pay an FBI agent or other high government offical for classified information that would constitute espionage. Offer, acceptance and information for a payment. That is illegal, that is espionage. If a reporter pays for the same information and publishes instead of sending it to the Kremlin for analysis, how is that any less espionage?

I know that the reporter will wrap themselves in the 1st amendment, but that is just misdirection. They call it a “Bribe’ which is a mischaracterization, its not Barratry, changing policy for money, its espionage. (I know that in order to prosecute you need someone with a will to act. that is another matter.)

Any thoughts?


67 posted on 06/17/2018 11:34:07 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: doorgunner69

Less than $25 in value. When I was a contractor for a government agency, acceptable gifts were trinkets, pens, pads of paper with the company logo, etc.


68 posted on 06/17/2018 2:00:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: doorgunner69

Basically, it was nothing that wouldn’t be handed out at a trade show. They don’t hand out tickets to a major league baseball game at trade shows.


69 posted on 06/17/2018 2:06:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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