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ABC, CBS Try to Shield Mueller Investigation from FBI Agent’s Lib Bias

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 14th, 2018 10:02 PM
The Department of Justice's Inspector General dropped a bombshell report on Washington, D.C. on Thursday which detailed their deep dive into the FBI’s handling of the Clinton e-mail probe. It found that former FBI Director James Comey was insubordinate, validating President Trump’s decision to fire him, but it also found that a small group of FBI agents had it out to get candidate Trump. Despite…
 

WOW: I.G. Report Finds FBI Agents Received ‘Benefits’ from Journalists

Curtis Houck
June 14th, 2018 4:38 PM
First reported by The Daily Caller’s Joe Simonson, the Department of Justice’s Inspector General report on the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe found on Thursday that not only were “numerous FBI employees...in frequent contact with reporters” when they shouldn’t have been, but they “improperly receiv[ed] benefits from reporters,” including food, golf trips, and tickets to sporting events.
 
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CNN Frets WH Will ‘Seize’ Upon I.G. Report, ‘Take’ a ‘Victory Lap’

Curtis Houck
June 14th, 2018 3:51 PM

Moments after Thursday’s long-awaited release of the Department of Justice Inspector General report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation, a CNN Newsroom panel dismissed it as a “mild” report in which “[t]he other shoe didn’t drop” and will provide “[p]lenty of ammunition for both sides.” However, they fretted that the White House will “seize” on its findings and “…

 
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‘You Don’t Have a Right to Know’ Why FBI Spied, Says Legal Analyst

Bill D'Agostino
June 14th, 2018 3:10 PM

On Wednesday evening, Tucker Carlson grilled former Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman about the FBI’s use of a paid informant to spy on the Trump campaign. Goldman rebuffed the Fox News host’s inquiries into why the FBI had employed such a tactic, at one point scolding him, “You don’t have a right to know.” 

 
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ABC & CBS Ignore Mueller’s Public Image Hitting All-Time Low

Kyle Drennen
June 14th, 2018 11:05 AM
On Thursday, while reporting on the latest developments in the Russia investigation, neither ABC’s Good Morning America nor CBS This Morning made any mention of a new poll showing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s favorability with the American people dropping to lowest level since the probe began over a year ago. NBC’s Today show did manage to note the survey, but only for a mere 17 seconds.
 
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GMA Ignores Report of Senate Staffer Leaking Info to NYT Reporter

Kristine Marsh
June 8th, 2018 1:02 PM
Friday morning, ABC News ignored a story that broke overnight that revealed how some reporters were using unethical means to obtain and leak information about the Trump Administration. The Justice Department announced late Thursday that the former head of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James Wolfe, was arrested and indicted for lying to the FBI about his leaking of information to…
 
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CBS, NBC Skip News of DOJ Watchdog Finding Comey ‘Insubordinate’

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 7th, 2018 9:53 PM
On Wednesday, media outlets began reporting of a draft Justice Department Inspector General report floating around that was highly critical of former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. But come Thursday evening, both CBS and NBC failed to mention it even though they each had the opportunity to report the development during two of evening broadcasts and their…
 
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Camerota Suggests Accidental Shooting Undermines 'Good Guy With a Gun'

Brad Wilmouth
June 4th, 2018 10:24 AM
On Monday morning, as CNN's New Day show highlighted video of an FBI agent accidentally shooting someone in a Denver nightclub while dancing flamboyantly, co-host Alisyn Camerota suggested that the video undermine's the NRA's argument that "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," as she discussed the news with co-host John Berman. By contrast, although Fox and Friends…
 
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Byron York: Key Claims in Dec. NY Times Trump-Russia Story Are False

Tom Blumer
June 2nd, 2018 1:33 PM
Friday evening, Fox News's Martha MacCallum interviewed Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York. In that interview's second half, the pair discussed new information which contradicts key contentions about "How the (Trump)-Russia inquiry began" made in a December New York Times story. That story claimed that the investigation began as a result of a May 2016 "heavy drinking"…
 

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Again Slams Opponents as 'Too Stupid'

Randy Hall
May 24th, 2018 7:06 PM
Put simply, MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough has a very nasty habit. When someone disagrees with him, he often resorts to hammering that person as being either “too stupid” or “too incompetent” to be taken seriously. That pattern of behavior continued on Wednesday, when the former Republican stated that “you’re too stupid to handle household appliances” if you believe there was a…
 
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Smackdown: Jordan Destroys Cuomo in Debate on Collusion, Russia Probe

Curtis Houck
May 23rd, 2018 5:31 PM

Wednesday saw the latest edition of CNN’s New Day co-host Chris Cuomo throwing down with Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan as the topics du jour featured calls for a second special counsel, Russian collusion, and a Thursday meeting of congressional Republicans having access to some of the most sensitive documents related to the Trump-Russia probe.

 
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WHAT? MSNBC Guest Compares Questioning Mueller to Nazis Bombing London

Curtis Houck
May 22nd, 2018 9:07 PM

Early Tuesday night, Daily Caller media reporter Justin Caruso flagged some Grade A insanity on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House as Clinton-era Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman compared criticism of the Trump-Russia probe and calls for oversight to the Nazis bombing campaign on London in World War II (known as The Blitz).

 

Seriously? ‘Straight Shooter’ Comey Graphic Novel Is Now Available

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Gabriel Hays
April 27th, 2018 1:56 PM
It turns out that the uncanny ability to make people from all sides of the political spectrum hate you is a comic book-worthy superpower. The former FBI director will be starring in a gritty, true-crime graphic novel, titled “Political Power: James Comey.”
 
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Nets Hype ‘Bombshell,’ ‘Infamous’ Comey Memos, Skimped on McCabe

Scott Whitlock
April 20th, 2018 1:07 PM
All three networks on Friday hyped the “bombshell,” “infamous” James Comey memos released overnight. ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 12 minutes and 12 seconds to the documents with each network claiming they “obtained” them. In contrast, the same outlets skimped on coverage of the Justice Department recommending charges against the fired-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.