Briefly Noted: The Grey Lady Stands By Its Man
E-correspondent Jim brought a brief John Crudele piece to my attention: Comey criticism nowhere to be found in New York Times . It speaks volumes regarding the state of "journalism" in the MSM, as described recently by commenter Forbes . Crudele details how the NYT allowed itself to be used in a crass--and illegal--conspiracy. The Grey Lady made itself the handmaiden of a corrupt FBI Director, and even now declines to come clean or even criticize the seducer who debauched the paper. Instead, the NYT has shifted from "Russian collusion" to "Racism". Crudele:
Funny, but I didn’t find much about the criticism of former FBI director James Comey on The New York Times website last Friday.
That was the day after the Justice Department’s internal investigator, Michael Horowitz, blasted Comey for being deceitful about memos he leaked , through a friend, to The Times.
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The reporter who got the memo from Comey in the now-criticized instance also was part of a team that, back in 2017, wrote a story on direct contact between Trump advisers and Russian officials before the 2016 election.
It was a blockbuster attempt to prove collusion between Trump’s people and the Russians. And, as the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller proved, it was also untrue.
But you didn’t have to wait for Mueller’s report to know that. On June 9, 2017, The Times reported — not very publicly –— that Comey said of the paper’s Trump/Russia article “in the main, it was not true.”
Maybe that’s why Comey decided to start leaking stuff to The Times. At least the paper would get something right.
Ouch!
But think about. The Director of the FBI leaking "information" to America's supposed "newspaper of record" and then later stating under oath to the Senate --without a blush--that the resulting article was "in the main ... not true". Follow the link for a nice photo of Comey swearing to tell the truth to the Senate Intel Committee. He must've felt right at home in that Den of Thieves!
There Oughta Be a Law! Or ... is there?