Courtesy of Pam Martens.
CNN Digital Front Page, Sunday, November 6, 2016, 4:33 P.M.
Yesterday, at 4:33 p.m., we checked at the digital front page of CNN to see how it was delivering the news that FBI Director James Comey had sent yet another letter to Congress (on a Sunday, no less). The letter indicated that the FBI had reviewed the additional emails from the private server of Hillary Clinton that were found on sext-addict Anthony Weiner’s laptop and that it had not changed its conclusions that Comey had expressed in his July statement. The July announcement from Comey found that Clinton had been “extremely careless” by transmitting information classified as Top Secret and Secret over a non secure server in the basement of her New York home while serving as Secretary of State in the Obama administration but that the investigation had concluded with no recommendation to charge her with any crime.
The statement that came from Comey yesterday, however, did not mention the ongoing, year-long criminal investigation into pay-to-play allegations against the Clinton Foundation where favors may have been given by Hillary Clinton’s State Department in exchange for large donations to the charity founded by Bill Clinton on which he continues to serve as a Director and where their daughter, Chelsea, serves as Vice Chair of the Board. That ongoing investigation has been reported by the Wall Street Journal and by CNN’s Senior Law Enforcement Analyst, Tom Fuentes. Despite this, CNN ran a big, bold headline yesterday — “All Clear” – to erroneously send voters in tomorrow’s presidential election the signal that it’s clear-sailing for Clinton at the FBI.
The “extremely careless” charge Comey had leveled at Clinton in July hardly captured the gist of the situation. Dozens of individuals without security clearance – lawyers, a maid, computer maintenance workers at Platte River Networks and Datto, Inc. and even Anthony Weiner, the disgraced husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin who is under a criminal FBI investigation for sexting an underage girl, all had access to Hillary Clinton’s classified emails. Why was that so dangerous to U.S. security interests? The Associated Press reported in June that when the State Department released batches of Clinton’s emails to the public with notations to explain why some material was redacted, “at least 47 of the emails contain the notation ‘B3 CIA PERS/ORG,’ indicating that the redacted text referred to CIA personnel or matters related to the agency.” This designation would strongly suggest that Clinton may have revealed CIA assets and/or identities over a non-secure server and to individuals lacking security clearance, potentially putting lives at risk.
Late last night, WikiLeaks released another trove of over 8,000 emails, some showing the invisible hands of the Democratic National Committee interacting with CNN to frame the narrative supporting Clinton.
CNN had already been shamed into firing DNC Interim Chair, Donna Brazile, after two separate WikiLeaks email releases indicated she had fed CNN debate questions to Hillary Clinton’s campaign team in advance of two CNN primary debates. Brazile at the time was functioning in the highly conflicted role as a CNN contributor as well as Vice Chair of the DNC. (The DNC has been sued in Federal Court by Sanders’ supporters for violating its own Charter which demands that it treat all primary candidates without bias.)
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