https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/11/10/mccabe-says-hes-responsible-fbi-misconduct-russia-probe-netsWhen pressed by Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about “who’s responsible” for the FBI’s misconduct and lies in the Russia collusion investigation during a hearing Tuesday, former FBI Deputy Director turned CNN analyst Andrew McCabe told the committee: “I am certainly responsible as a person in a leadership position.” His testimony was the latest in a string of damaging admissions that had gone unmentioned by the broadcast networks.
While the ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News were still puffing smoke about President Trump not conceding to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Fox News Channel’s Special Report delivered a full segment on McCabe’s testimony.
“The former deputy director of the FBI says he should not have pursued the warrant for surveillance on a key member of the 2016 Trump team,” announced anchor Bret Baier. “That admission by Andrew McCabe today came during a Senate hearing on the Russia collusion investigation.”
This intentional censorship from the broadcast networks against bad news for the Russia-collusion hoax was just the latest example. Ever since December, 2019, when the Justice Department’s inspector general revealed the FBI’s misconduct in applying for FISA surveillance warrants for then-Trump campaign aide Carter Page, they’ve been trying to cover it up.
At first, ABC tried to defend the FBI and lied about the IG’s findings, claiming there was “no spying” on the Trump campaign. ABC and CBS also complained about President Trump and Attorney General William Barr blasting the FBI for their lies and fabricated evidence. All three networks blacked out the statement from one of the FISA judges accusing the FBI of a criminal act.
And when it came to comments and testimony from high-ranking former FBI and DOJ officials with their fingerprints on the hoax, the networks ignored them too.
They weren’t interested in disgraced FBI Director James Comey’s concession that his bureau had actively deceived the FISA court for a warrant to spy on Page. Nor him getting called out about it at a committee hearing. There was also no mention of the testimony of former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who told the same committee that Comey had went “rogue” in the investigation.
The networks also had no interest in telling their viewers about how former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had dropped his support for the FBI’s lie-filled application. And that’s not to mention how the networks covered up the evidence that showed the Russia collusion hoax was a plot approved by Hillary Clinton, and the CIA’s corroboration.