Posted on 12/19/2018 4:13:56 PM PST by Twotone
Imagine that a federal prosecutor had gone after The Washington Post Company back in the 1990s on the theory that the reluctance of its magazine, Newsweek, to publish an article about a sex scandal involving Bill Clinton constituted an illegal campaign contribution to the Clinton campaign.
The ensuing outcry and fear that prosecutors would begin substituting their own news judgment for that of editors wouldn’t have been limited to First Amendment absolutists like Nat Hentoff. It would almost certainly have been widely shared. And justifiably so.
As Newsweek itself eventually found out via Matt Drudge, and as the framers of the First Amendment well understood, free-market competition is better regulation of press behavior than any second-guessing by government lawyers threatening criminal prosecution based on creative theories of campaign finance law.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
The FBI, certainly at least at its headquarters in Washington DC, is a politicized and fundamentally corrupt agency.
FBI “always get its man” no matter what, and how.
If coloring the news to suit one political party is a campaign contribution then there will be a lot of Democrats in jail.
J. Edger Hover the first Director was a scheming corupt mad man.
The organization hasn’t changed much.
And no matter what kind of EVIDENCE THEY HAVE TO MANUFACTURE!
Impossible, the Ministry of Propaganda is the information arm of the Deep State.
.... This is all just wishful thinking. The Swamp along with the Defenders of all things Democrat are about to regenerate on Jan 20th ...
The Washington Post is the CIA’s original newspaper!
I wrote this exact same thing on this forum last week. NBC shelved the Rape allegation. The LA Times shelved the tapes of Obama speaking about Shiekh Khalidi. There is a photo of Obama with Farakkhan, Sharpton and Jackson that was cropped to cut Farakkhan out of it. All of these done to “influence the outcome of an election”.
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