Those folks at the Associated Press sure are "clever."
Those looking for information about Hillary Clinton's damning email to her daughter Chelsea indicating that Mrs. Clinton knew that a planned operation by Al Qaeda — and not an Internet video — was behind the Benghazi attacks which killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others trying to save him will find nothing at all at the AP's national site in a search (not in quotes) on "Hillary Chelsea":
The AP's intent to keep the smoking-gun evidence as inaccessible as possible from the get-go is clear in how it handled the matter when it was first publicly revealed.
The wire service's running timeline of the hearing noted the following information when Ohio Representative Jim Jordan revealed the previously undisclosed email's existence and shared its contents:
Key points:
- The AP's "some people believed" statement is the height of deception. Mrs. Clinton's statement was not a "some people believe" assertion. Jordan read what it said: "Two officers were killed today in Benghazi by an Al Qaeda- like group." Additionally, regardless of how tentative her very first "public statement" might conceivably have been construed, Mrs. Clinton herself stated on several occasions when she obviously knew better, beginning shortly after the murders and up to and at least including several days later when the victims' remains were returned to U.S. soil, that an Internet video was the motivation for the attack. As Rep. Jordan himself in the hearing about the "Internet video": "It started with you, Madam Secretary."
- "Jordan has produced copies of emails Clinton wrote her family" — The hearing transcript shows that Jordan only showed one family-related email with one addressee. The hearing transcript shows that Jordan, perhaps assuming that Mrs. Clinton's daughter would share what she learned with her husband and her father (hmm — why no email to him?), referred to "family" three timesand never uttered Chelsea's name. Nevertheless, as seen here, Chelsea Clinton is the email's only addressee, and the Wall Street Journal's live blogger had no problem identifying Chelsea (under the pseudonym "Diana Reynolds") as the sole recipient:
- The excuse about "conflicting intelligence" Mrs. Clinton used is beyond pathetic. Once she began the "Internet video" narrative, neither she or anyone else in the Obama administration varied from it for days.
As noted earlier, neither the hearing timeline nor any other story currently present at the AP's main national web site identifies Chelsea Clinton as the recipient of the single email to which Jordan referred. That can also be said of the wire service's "Big Story" site (unlike the main national site, "Big Story" items, once posted, remain present and accessible). Given the fast pace of involved in writing up live reports and the degree of virtually instant deception the AP employed, it's not unreasonable to believe that the wire service was tipped off about what Jordan would say, and worked hard in advance of the hearing to craft what its narrative would be.
Those who wish to inform low-information Democratic primary and (heaven forbid) general election voters about Mrs. Clinton's smoking-gun email will find nothing to help them prove their point by searching AP's archives for news relating to her daughter.
That is no accident.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
