Posted on 02/15/2022 7:07:12 PM PST by blam
Establishment media on Tuesday panned Special Counsel John Durham’s court filings that alleged Hillary Clinton’s campaign associates spied on Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency.
After more than 48 hours since Durham’s court filing revelations were reported, the New York Times and Washington Post finally wrote articles on the subject, but they cast doubt on the filings’ significance. The outlets framed their articles around criticizing “right-leaning media” for “carefully” scrutinizing “off track” narratives that are “often based on a misleading presentation of the facts or outright misinformation.”
The Times headlined its Monday story, “Court Filing Started a Furor in Right-Wing Outlets, but Their Narrative Is Off Track,” and claimed the “alarmist” narrative highlights “the challenge for journalists in deciding what merits coverage”:
Upon close inspection, these narratives are often based on a misleading presentation of the facts or outright misinformation. They also tend to involve dense and obscure issues, so dissecting them requires asking readers to expend significant mental energy and time — raising the question of whether news outlets should even cover such claims. Yet Trump allies portray the news media as engaged in a cover-up if they don’t.
The Post published an “analysis” article Monday afternoon that claimed there is no evidence “Trump Tower was ‘wiretapped,'” and avoided making a clear connection between Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her associates that allegedly spied on Trump:
There are legitimate questions about the effort to link Trump back to Russia using this data that was not only sketchy at the outset, but had also been debunked by the time the election was over. But there is no question that this is not proof that Trump Tower was “wiretapped.”
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Clean up on isle 9 - fat toad made another mess 🤪
When was the last time they had the respect of the public for their integrity?
But I read the media would never report this! How is this possible?☺
Fixed it.
This is the job of the Ministry of Propaganda.
They are paid to create an alternative reality.
sigh...word salad. Trying to head off a really big problem.
I am suspicious of most journalists right now. And my suspicion is merited.
Real simple. They have done it this way since Ken Starr. Investigation of Republicans good. Investigations of Democrats bad. Previously, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, and Lawrence Walsh were all crime fighting superheroes attacking GOP presidents.
The timelines of the Steele Dossier, which led to the since exposed FISA warrants on Page and Papodopoluos, along with the law which allows FISA warrant “wiretapping” to extend to anyone in contact with those being specifically targeted, have made it extremely likely that Trump himself was spied on while his campaign headquarters was hosted in Trump tower.
I believe this is where Durham’s investigation SHOULD haven gotten by now, and this recent excursion into DNS data is interesting, but not crucial as the actual spying that was being done, was already well underway by that time courtesy of the Steele dossier, whose details and importance are being forgotten in these new discussions. Is that by design, one has to wonder.
I have to wonder what admiral Mike Rogers opinion would be on all this?
We’re going to get to watch some Brandon Media ballet as they dance through this little minefield...
There is a blessing in here. These difficult questions finally got Hillary to STFU.
Hillary dindu nuffin!!
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Well, the Reporting, outside Fox, was the Trumpers are excited over nothing, and they don’t understand.
I think the NYT was like - Conservatives excited over nothing. “Narrative” and Byzantine reporting is wrong and old news.
What Holiday Inn Express did they stay in last night that they are now expert special prosecutors?
-PJ
What came out last weekend was the potential for private wiretapping. Monitoring DNS lookups is legal, selling them is unethical but legal, but selling them to the opposition party seems to be way over the line. It is speculation, but controlling the DNS also allows connection hijacking, clearly illegal form of a private wiretap.
The hard evidence will come later, as in indictments.
The hard evidence will come later, as in indictments.
Is that a slap at Freepers?
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