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The Media’s Scandalous Infatuation with the Intelligence Community:

  Becket Adams, National Review, July 9, 2023

The current relationship between the intelligence community and major media is not just uncomfortably chummy, it’s dangerous.

We’re in a bad place when the “watchmen” of our republic are apparently at the beck and call of professional liars, dismissing the worst abuses by intelligence officials and platforming them with plum newsroom “analyst” gigs.

Under John Brennan’s leadership, the CIA spied on the United States Senate.

Brennan’s flunkies created a fake online profile to access the network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose Democratic members were at the time investigating the CIA’s torture program. Once inside, CIA agents read emails written by Senate investigators. The spies then made criminal referrals based on bogus information. During this entire ordeal, Brennan lied repeatedly, both publicly and behind closed doors, about the spying.

Brennan currently serves as a national-security and intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Elsewhere, a 2018 report by the Justice Department inspector general found that disgraced former FBI official Andrew McCabe had leaked sensitive information about the Hillary Clinton email investigation to members of the press. According to that report, McCabe lied to his boss, then–FBI director James Comey; lied to members of the FBI’s Inspection Division, sometimes while under oath; and lied to agents for the Office of the Inspector General. [To read the full article, click here]

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