Posted on 11/25/2015 2:24:18 AM PST by markomalley
A CNN reporter who was recently suspended for two weeks violating the network’s editorial guidelines showed up in a new trove of State Department emails released on Tuesday in which she appears to have coordinated social media posts with a top Hillary Clinton State Department aide during the former secretary of state’s Jan. 23, 2013 Senate testimony about the Benghazi attacks.
The emails, which were released to the website Gawker, show that Elise Labott, a foreign affairs reporter at CNN, took guidance from Clinton aide Philippe Reines by posting a tweet criticizing Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul for asking Clinton tough questions during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks.
Labott also coordinated with Reines to post a favorable quote from Clinton’s testimony, which she gave just a week before she left office.
In the Reines emails, which are the subject of a Gawker lawsuit against the State Department, Labott appears to pick up on a previous conversation she was having with Reines during the Benghazi hearing, asking him: “are you sure rand paul wasn’t at any hearings?”
Five minutes after sending that email, Labott sent Reines another message sharing what she had tweeted about Paul.
Hours later, Labott and Reines were at it again.
“She was great. well done. I hope you are going to have a big drink tonight,” Labott wrote to Reines, complimenting Clinton’s performance.
Reines followed up that compliment by telling Labott that he had “suggested a good Tweet.”
Labott said that she had not received an email concerning another tweet. Reines wrote back “Pin,” an apparent reference to a private messaging system.
Labott wrote back “will get back to you.” Eleven minutes later she sent an email reading, “done.”
According to free-market advocate Phil Kerpen, who scoured through the emails on Tuesday, Labott sent the following message at Reines’ request:
ARB is a reference to the Accountability Review Board that Clinton appointed to investigate the Benghazi attacks.
The release of the emails caps a rough month for Labott. On Thursday, she posted a biased tweet decrying the House’s passage of a bill that would halt the program allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S. until federal agencies can ensure that they don’t pose a national security risk. CNN suspended Labott the next day for violating its editorial guidelines.
gutterwhore alert.
She may have to resort to hooking to keep up her lifestyle after she’s fired. No way they can keep her and maintain any credibility as a news outlet. Merry Christmas, you’re fired.
“after she’s fired”
If she’s fired, it will be for being caught, not for coordinating with the Rats.
I want the MSM in its current state to be reduced to a smouldering heap of ashes.
Cicero’s people.
and then peed on.
Isn't this the truth. Rush has shown time and again how the MSM uses the same talking points and buzzwords and calls it news.
Can someone remind me why the Republicans are allowing this organization to host the next debate?
The “difference” Madame Secretary, is THE TRUTH, and YOUR OATH is to provide the American people and this committee with the TRUTH.
There is only one!
“If she is fired” If being the operative word meaning not very likely.
Seems to me if they fire her they would have to fire a bunch more reporters, she may have done this in emails and tweets but I’ve seen worse then that right on the air, the questions and answers when interviewing democrats are obviously coordinated, the DNC talking points are never challenged.
Every democrat to appear on CNN enjoys a love fest.
Our free and impartial press.
Don't they all?
A bird in a cage will parrot whatever it's owner says because a bird has a physically small brain of limited capability. What exactly is the excuse for the parroting behavior of these "reporters"?
The Journ-O-List is never-ending.
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