Nicholas Fandos, the very same reporter on the anonymously sourced story about House Republicans supposedly leaking, received a leak from Democrats on the committee, which he immediately published under the headline, "Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump."
"We've gotten to the point now where we're literally bringing people in for nine hours just so the Democrats can leak to the press," said Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla.
Schiff, who if he didn't leak the testimony himself, oversees the Democrats who did, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that it was "Unfair" that the Hicks testimony had been leaked.
I'm not sure how much of this is sloppy and credulous reporting vs. sloppy leaking by Team Schiff, but last week Natasha Bertrand of The Atlantic wrote about a leak from Democrats on the Intelligence Committee of direct Twitter messages between Wikileaks and former Trump advisor Roger Stone.
Imagine if our media had as much curiosity about what happened with this demonstrably false leak and resulting false reporting at CNN, MSNBC and CBS, as they did about the real leak of Warner texts.
Rather than cover this as, "Susan Rice totally lied when she said she knew nothing about unmasking, y'all," Team Schiff got CNN's Manu Raju - a favorite and reliable leak recipient for the Democrats on the Committee - to spin the news as totally ordinary and justified.
The leak of her testimony is thanks to the Democrats on the Committee.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/06/media-fight-for-democrats-in-washington-leak-wars/
"We've gotten to the point now where we're literally bringing people in for nine hours just so the Democrats can leak to the press," said Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla.
Schiff, who if he didn't leak the testimony himself, oversees the Democrats who did, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that it was "Unfair" that the Hicks testimony had been leaked.
I'm not sure how much of this is sloppy and credulous reporting vs. sloppy leaking by Team Schiff, but last week Natasha Bertrand of The Atlantic wrote about a leak from Democrats on the Intelligence Committee of direct Twitter messages between Wikileaks and former Trump advisor Roger Stone.
Imagine if our media had as much curiosity about what happened with this demonstrably false leak and resulting false reporting at CNN, MSNBC and CBS, as they did about the real leak of Warner texts.
Rather than cover this as, "Susan Rice totally lied when she said she knew nothing about unmasking, y'all," Team Schiff got CNN's Manu Raju - a favorite and reliable leak recipient for the Democrats on the Committee - to spin the news as totally ordinary and justified.
The leak of her testimony is thanks to the Democrats on the Committee.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/06/media-fight-for-democrats-in-washington-leak-wars/
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