The collusion between the FBI and Mainstream Media that everyone stopped talking about

milnenews ^ | 6/2/2019

[bitt]

The Office of Inspector General’s report on the FBI and Justice Department’s handling and mishandling of the investigation of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s use of an unauthorized, non-secure email server to conduct secret government business as Secretary of State revealed real and damning information on the mainstream media and their tight relationship with the deepest members of the deep state.

But for some reason this story has just disappeared into the ether.

And with all this talk of collusion you’d think this would be a hot topic.

While the FBI was leaking classified information, reporters were funneling bribes back to the leakers in the form of tickets to sporting events, golf outings, dinners, drinks, invites to private exclusive parties and more.

“We identified instances where FBI employees improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks, and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events,” reads Michael Horowitz’ report.

Horowitz has a separate investigation on the culture of leaks at the FBI and “will separately report on those investigations as they are concluded” the report stated.

“We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review,” the IG continued. “These leaks highlight the need to change what appears to be a cultural attitude among many in the organization.”

Along with the FBI’s cozy relationship with the media, Horowitz’s report says that officials in the bureau at “all levels of the organization” leaked information to reporters without authorization.

Elsewhere, the IG report outlined numerous instances of bias by several FBI officials, including a text message in which an FBI agent working on the Clinton email probe called Trump supporters “retarded.”

The Daily Caller’s Kevin Daley points out the pay-offs from mainstream media reporters to leaking FBI agents may be a violation of federal law:

The rules define a prohibited source as a person who:

Is seeking official action by, is doing business or seeking to do business with, or is regulated by the employee’s agency; or Has interests that may be substantially affected by performance or nonperformance of the employee’s official duties. Those definitions derive from the U.S. Code that states violations will be sanctioned “in accordance with any applicable laws, executive orders, and rules or regulations.”

The stories about the mainstream media being biased and working with very biased and very powerful federal bureaucrats, meeting at private and elite cocktail parties to plot their own agenda and the downfall of their political enemies were not some conspiracy theory after all, it was very much true and, apparently, it was common business in Obama’s Washington.

The bottom line is the mainstream media colluded with agents and executives at every level of the FBI to try to affect the results of the 2016 presidential election.

[bitt]

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[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Brilliant]

One question I want to know the answer to is whether Comey or Brennan contacted the WaPo and asked them to write a story in early 2016 talking about the fact that Trump had no foreign policy advisers. The reason I want to know is that I suspect that story was calculated to bait Trump into hiring Papadopoulos and Carter Page.

[Liz]

AG Barr revealed DOJ investigations into media leaks .....determining how MSM had scoops
on the Trump-Russia investigation long before Congress was aware of the subject matter.

The linchpin is the Clintons.

ITEM <><> Journalists Dined at Top Clinton Staffers Homes Days Before Hillary’s announcement of her candidacy
Wikileaks via Breitbart ^ | October 17 2016 | Ezra Dulis / FR Posted by grey_whiskers

Several top journalists and TV news anchors RSVPed “yes” to attend a private, off-the-record gathering at the New York home of Joel Benenson, the chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, two days before she announced her candidacy in 2015, according to emails Wikileaks published from John Podesta’s accounts.

ITEM <><> The guest list for an earlier event at the home of her campaign manager, John Podesta, was limited to
reporters who were expected to cover Clinton on the campaign trail. —snip—

ITEM <><> Wikileaks revealed earlier that late night talk host Stephen Colbert, and his team at Comedy Central, were making TV episodes at the request or order of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) back in April of 2013. So, viewers thought they were vote-smart because they’re informed by a comedian, yet same said comedian was doing Hillary’s bidding the whole time.

ITEM <><> Hillary frequently used the Democrats' "wrap-up smear."......leaking false info about her opponent to the media. When the obedient press published the smear, Hillary would wave it around indicating she was the superior candidate.

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The Clinton Foundation listed "notable past members" they were cozy with.
This page was carried in the Clinton Foundation archives........until recently.

Page has since been deleted from Clinton Foundation archives.

[Liz]

Wikileaks Reveals All the Journalists Who Schmoozed With Clinton Campaign

According to a list first published in The Intercept, there to learn what they should think about Clinton’s announcement, expectations for the launch period and the framing of her message was an all-star cast of mainstream media denizens.

There were Cecilia Vega, David Muir, Diane Sawyer, Jon Karl and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News; John Heilemann and Mark Halperin of Bloomberg; Norah O’Donnell and Vicki Gordon of CBS News; Brianna Keilar, David Chalian, Gloria Borger, Jeff Zeleny, John Berman, Kate Bouldan, Mark Preston and Sam Feist of CNN; Savannah Guthrie of NBC; and Alex Wagner, Beth Fouhy, Phil Grifin and Rachel Racusen of MSNBC. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was listed as TBD.

There were five staffers from the New York Times – Amy Chozik, Gail Collins, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman and Pat Healey, as well as Alyssa Mastramonoco of Vice, Jon Allen of Vox, Mike Allen of Axios, and Glenn Thrush of Politico, who was later found to have submitted stories to the Clinton campaign for approval.

A similar group attended a dinner the night before at John Podesta’s house. Podesta, then Clinton’s campaign manager, now writes a column for The Washington Post.

Attendees at the Podesta dinner included Liz Kreutz of ABC, Julie Pace, Ken Thomas and Lisa Lerer of the Associated Press; Jennifer Epstein of Bloomberg, April Ryan of the American Urban Radio Network, Rudy Cramer of Buzzfeed, Mike Memoli and Evan Handler of the Los Angeles Times, Alex Seitz-Wald of MSNBC, Mark Murray of NBC, Anita Kumar of McClatchey, Amy Chozik and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, Tamara Keith of NPR and Annie Karni and Gabe Debenedetti of Politico.

No Fox reporters attended either of these meetings.

[rawcatslyentist]

First things first. There never was an "investigation". Memos state this explicitly.

There is no need for an "investigation" either. She is GUILTY!

Time for trial, prosecution, and punishment!

[GOPJ]

I think the New York Times is worried...

[monkeyshine]

The media is blithely self unaware. No ability to self reflect. The payoffs to FBI tipsters is just a logical next step from where it has been headed a long time.

Go back to the gulf war, when the media were ‘embedded’ with troops to cover the conflict. Rather than watchdogs against government abuse they became willing mouthpieces reporting what they were shown. More and more they depend on government sources, which ensures they will be reporting what someone in government wants them to report. Lately, they’ve been running non-stop with reports from anonymous sources. If a source won’t go on the record their motives should be questioned. But it is also convenient for those journalists who want to report a certain narrative to intentionally hide their source for if it was revealed the public might see right through the bias - this has been happening a lot lately.

There are plenty of video memes showing that people on TV repeat the same talking points on the many channels and shows. Obviously they are being coordinated by someone or some group, and the networks are in full cooperation to allow it.

So it is natural that journalists are now paying off government agents for leaks. They have become totally dependent on government for stories for a long time - it’s a sellers market especially when the journalists are very eager to buy some salacious new rumor.

[Tucker39]

O.K. Alright. We admit it. They were doing all that, back and forth both ways. But they didn’t have any wicked intentions, or MEAN anyone any harm. So no prosecutor would EVER bring charges against them./S. Am I becoming to cynical?

[1Old Pro]

One question I want to know the answer to is whether Comey or Brennan contacted the WaPo and asked them to write a story in early 2016 talking about the fact that Trump had no foreign policy advisers. The reason I want to know is that I suspect that story was calculated to bait Trump into hiring Papadopoulos and Carter Page.

I suspect Barr will turn over all the rocks. Like he said, he now has more questions than ever as his investigation continues.

[Flick Lives]

Hillary frequently used the Democrats’ “wrap-up smear.”......leaking false info about her opponent to the media. When the obedient press published the smear, Hillary would wave it around indicating she was the superior candidate.

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Sounds just like the technique the FBI used with the dossier. Plant it in the media then when the media writes about it reference the stories in the media as the source.

[thinden]

how many of these MSM coupsters will show up on perkins-coie or fusion gps 1099’s??

[a little elbow grease]

Posted on ‎6‎/‎3‎/‎2019‎ ‎12‎:‎54‎:‎23‎ ‎PM by bitt The Office of Inspector General’s report on the FBI and Justice Department’s handling and mishandling of the investigation of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s use of an unauthorized, non-secure email server to conduct secret government business as Secretary of State revealed real and damning information on the mainstream media and their tight relationship with the deepest members of the deep state.

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The MSM is filled with soulless scumbags. To hell with them.

[monkeyshine]

That’s a working theory - though I think that op-ed was signed by some Never-Trump GOPers that go back to Nixon and Daddy Bush eras.

Papadopoulos still doesn’t know how or why he was invited to work for that London consultancy, nor why when he gave notice he was leaving they offered to send him to Italy. Normally when you quit a job the boss stops giving you plumb assignments. Someone inside the Trump team may have been involved in picking the names that went on his advisory list.

But it is possible they went through the list after the fact looking for ways in. As Bongino points out, the FISA warrants allow “2 hops”. They can capture the communications of the person on the warrant, and all the communications of anyone they connect with - AND all the communications of anyone that 2nd party communicates with. So it didn’t really matter who they got the warrant on, they just needed someone on the campaign because that person would very likely communicate with someone who communicated directly with Trump - giving them the ability to eavesdrop on Trump personally without naming him directly.

What should be looked at is why they chose Carter Page. He had been a confidential FBI asset that helped them catch Russian spies in the past. Why did they tell the Court that he was being approached by Russian agents attempting to recruit him? His cover was already blown in Russia when the spies were arrested! I think perhaps the FBI chose Page because they had some evidence on hand from the old cases - they just “flipped the truth” to say that he was working with Russian spies instead of working against Russian spies. How would the court know that the FBI was lying?

[Brilliant]

The FBI went to a lot of trouble to make it appear that Page was just an innocent civilian who got caught up in the first investigation. They did not want anyone to think he was a government agent.

[jmacusa]

All of these people should in prison. Some of them should be swinging from a rope. Anampour chief among them. Haughty Iranian half breed.

[trebb]

I doubt this angle has “disappeared into the ether”....Barr has a LOT on his plate to unravel and put back together...this has to be part of the overall picture.

[generally]

Great info, thanks for posting.

Ping to my ping list.

[Liz]

Glad you found my post useful.