Hannity’s Judicial Watch Scoop: Where’s the Rest of the Media?
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/n...nnitys-judicial-watch-scoop-wheres-rest-media
So as I sat in a television studio in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ready to beam in on Thursday night’s Sean Hannity show, I checked my notes.
The topic was to be the media and President Trump’s visit to El Paso. The format was, first, a Hannity monologue, then the segue to the opening El Paso segment, where I would be paired with
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the former Trump White House aide and now host of
The Sebastian Gorka Show.
In the world of cable news, completely normal.
Then, through my earpiece, I hear Sean’s inimitable voice opening the show — and was quickly amazed. He decidedly was not talking El Paso.
His opening was about the brand-new release by Judicial Watch of just-obtained Justice Department documents that quite vividly illustrated what a Fox News account would later headline as follows:
“FBI kept using Steele dossier for FISA applications despite documenting ex-spy's bias, documents show”
This, I knew in a blink, was blockbuster news. Judicial Watch had finally gotten its hands on what in bureaucratic language are called “302s” — summaries of FBI interviews. In this case the 302s were with Russia Hoax Justice Department official Bruce Ohr — he both the Obama-era Associate Deputy Attorney General (who inexplicably is still in some now-demoted post at Justice) and the husband of Nellie Ohr.
Mrs. Ohr, it had earlier been discovered, was an employee of the shady Fusion GPS firm that played a key role in the creation and financing of the infamous “Steele dossier” — a decided work of fiction that falsely attributed all kinds of imagined sins and nefarious deeds to Donald Trump and his supposed dalliance with Russians. And was then used to obtain FISA warrants — a decided case of using a fraudulent document to open an FBI investigation targeting the Trump campaign.
It was quickly apparent that my segment was going to be gone with the wind and, sure enough, it was cancelled. No problem with me. I have been intently following what has evolved over the last two-plus years into what effectively amounted to a soft-coup attempt by Deep State bureaucrats.
As often happens in the world of cable news, what only hours earlier was Topic A — the whole El Paso/Dayton tragedy in this case — had quickly been replaced by Topic Z, another topic entirely that was thrust into the spotlight because of new revelations.
There, all of a sudden, was Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, whose constant legal badgering for once confidential government documents through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests had finally unearthed this treasure trove of new information.
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