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MSM Lies – The Daily Beast, Leakers, FBI Falsehoods & Devin Nunes

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For any who don’t think the MSM is in bed with the Left, read on.

The Daily Beast ran an article with the breathless headline, Devin Nunes Won’t Say If He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo.

A photo grab from the initial article:

There was just one problem. The House Intelligence Committee decided to release the transcript of the meeting.

A photo grab from page 23 of the actual House Intelligence Committee transcript:

From the actual transcript:

QUIGLEY: When you, as the majority, conceived of doing this memo for release to the body and to the public, the preparation, the thought of doing it, the consultation of it, was any of this done after/during conversations or consultations with anyone in the White House.

NUNES: I would just answer, as far as I know, no.

Nunes explicitly denies a very specific question.

For those willing to parse the words “As far as I know”, note that Nunes is answering for the 13 Majority House Intelligence Members. Not just for himself.

Yes. Yes they do.

Davis is correct. “I’m not answering” is nowhere to be found. It wasn’t said.

This was the initial response from the Daily Beast reporter:

Notice anything missing?

The Daily Beast began to backpeddle and issued a “correction” – of sorts:

There was an obvious explanation:

A question:

And an observation:

Meanwhile, MSNBC had already picked up the story:

And the Daily Beast continued to push its false narrative:

Despite constant corrections:

From multiple reporters:

It’s obvious to all where the leaks originate from:

Omri Ceren stated the sad truth:

And noted the new line of “Defense”:

At the same time the Daily Beast tango was underway, this happened:

Again, there were some problems:

“Attributed to the FBI”.

Someone in the FBI may have said this. But it wasn’t an official FBI release.

Source documents always present certain “problems” to false narratives.

Source documents:

And “Sources”.

There’s a big difference.

Nunes, fed up with FBI obfuscation, issued a blisteringly blunt statement – almost more of a warning:

Having stonewalled Congress’ demands for information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies. The FBI is intimately familiar with ‘material omissions’ with respect to their presentations to both Congress and the courts, and they are welcome to make public, to the greatest extent possible, all the information they have on these abuses. Regardless, it’s clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign. Once the truth gets out, we can begin taking steps to ensure our intelligence agencies and courts are never misused like this again.

And followed up with a second statement:

Representative Mark Meadows proposed a solution:

Which is exactly what I stated would happen:

Meanwhile, that Memo will come out. Despite the best efforts of Democrats. And it will be bad – really bad – for the Left.

If Democrats chose to denigrate the House Memo – which they will – it may prove the impetus to release the underlying documents.

The Inspector General is already releasing them to Bob Goodlatte and the House Judiciary Committee.

The FBI needs a hard dose of sunshine.

It’s not just time to release the House Memo.

It’s time to release everything.

 

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