Network evening newscasts skip Sally Yates admitting James Comey went 'rogue' with Flynn interview
By: Brian Flood (Fox News)
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Sally Yates says James Comey blindsided her with Michael Flynn interview
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday then-FBI Director James Comey went "rogue" when probing then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn in January 2017 - but anyone who relies on the evening newscasts of NBC, CBS or ABC may have missed it.
ABC's "World News Tonight," NBC's "Nightly News" and "CBS Evening News" all skipped the story, according to the Media Research Center.
MRC news analyst Nicholas Fondacaro, who monitors broadcast news coverage, called it "another example of the broadcast networks covering up the degree of corruption in the Russia investigation," as Yates told the committee she was upset upon learning Comey interviewed Flynn without her authorization.
"Instead of reporting on Yates's shocking testimony, all three networks boasted how former Vice President Joe Biden decided to give his convention speech from the safety of his basement in Delaware," Fondacaro wrote.
Viewers missed an interesting exchange when committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked Yates about the circumstances surrounding the interview, particularly the actions of Comey.
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"I was upset that Director Comey didn't coordinate that with us and acted unilaterally," Yates said.
"Did Comey go rogue?" Graham asked.
"You could use that term, yes," Yates agreed.
Yates said she also took issue with Comey for not telling her that Flynn's communications with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were being investigated and that she first learned about this from President Barack Obama during an Oval Office meeting. Yates said she was "irritated" with Comey for not telling her about this earlier.
Fondacaro noted that ABC, NBC and CBS also "blacked out how Comey conceded the FBI had deceived the FISA courts with their warrant applications" during a 2019 interview with "FOX News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace.
Another frequent topic of conversation at the hearing was the FBI's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to conduct surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The Justice Department Inspector General's office concluded that there were several omissions and inaccuracies in the FBI's warrant applications, including relying on the unverified dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele as opposition research for Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Yates denied knowing that the FISA warrant applications had problems when she signed off on them. She also denied knowing that her own deputy, Bruce Ohr, had facilitated meetings between Steele and the FBI.
Meanwhile, political pundit and communications strategist Drew Holden took followers on a "trip down memory lane" with a lengthy Twitter thread of "bad Carter Page takes" in light of what Yates had testified.
"Believing the stuff represented in the thread below led journalists into the worst professional fiasco of our time," Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume wrote.
And today they will ignore the testimony of the DHS chief who says Portland rioters attacked law enforcement with hammers & IEDs.
Trump and his followers are off topic.
Just amazing. A complete abdication of any pretense to objectivity.
They have openly admitted it:
breitbart.com/the-media/2019/08/16/nolte-new-york-times-admits-we-built-our-newsroom-around-russia-collusion-hoax/
yes, but just because the NYT admitted it doesn't mean people will believe it.
Weird. huh?
These are strange times for sure.
Nah. The rogues are Flynn, Trump and Manafort. And of course the Russians.
Whatever, the Deutsche Bank is crawling and will soon be standing in all its pride. Dirty money.
Lisbon.
My. To funny.
liked it, did ya?
Does it bother you at all that you were manipulated into believing lies?
Which lies and by whom?
did you read the story? Have you heard of the Inspector Generals report on the abuse of the FISA program?
Seems like just a few years ago, Americans of all parties would agree it's wrong for the government to spy on American citizens without proper cause.
Democrats now revel in destroying our civil liberties. Sad to see.