Posted on 09/19/2025 6:36:36 AM PDT by bitt
By Paul Sperry RealClearInvestigations:
Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia.
Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating false and inflammatory leaks during President Trump’s first term.
Much of their reporting has been debunked – and shown to be part of a smear campaign by high-ranking officials to undermine Trump, but the identities of those leakers have remained hidden because of the government’s apparent unwillingness to expose its own and the refusal of reporters to identify the people who misled them and the nation.
Although the heavily redacted recent disclosures do not specifically identify the suspected leakers, an RCI analysis of the documents strongly suggests that people close to Comey and Schiff, among others, were feeding the reporters information to advance the Russiagate hoax.
The documents reveal a cascade of misdeeds and failures. These include the effort of government officials to create and leak misleading classified information to favored reporters and the failure of reporters to scrutinize the information they were given before rushing it into print; and the subsequent failure of federal investigators to hold anyone accountable for the breaches of security.
The documents also detail the incestuous nature of media-government relationships inside the D.C. Beltway. In some cases, spouses and friends of government officials and reporters were used to spread damaging misinformation about Trump, making it difficult for federal investigators to follow the trail of illegal disclosures.
“All of these cozy friendships of leakers and leaker recipients, many of whom are married to each other, are precisely why reporters adore hiding their sourcing behind walls of ‘senior administration officials’ or ‘senior U.S. officials’ and associated disguises,” said Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, a Washington-based journalism watchdog group.
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So Schiff and Comey are guilty of leaking classified documents where are the arrests?
When will they have enough evidence to get an indictment and arrest these criminals?
Recently declassified documents indicate:
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<><>were all connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters
<><>leaks designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies “in league” with Russia.
<><>the 2017 FBI documents expose names of hand-picked Washington reporters
<><>they were cued to repeat false inflammatory leaks during Trump’s first term.
<><>Ellen Nakashima, Wash/Post and Michael Schmidt, NYTimes got Pulitzers for false reporting,
<><>the duos’ reporting has been debunked
<><>shown to be part of a smear campaign by high-ranking officials to undermine Trump.
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Long and detailed and excellent article. Thanks.
Someone was leaking names of allege Russian oligarchs to ABC News.
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