Monday, November 7, 2016

The Anatomy of a Leak: How Did a Mistaken Clinton Story Happen?

On Wednesday, Bret Baier dropped a bombshell report on his Fox News show: An investigation into the Clinton Foundation was likely to lead to an indictment. New evidence was pouring in by the day. Fox is a right-leaning outlet, but Baier is one of their news reporters, and generally has a good reputation. A report in The Wall Street Journal, Fox’s corporate cousin, further confirmed the story. The Clinton campaign, wobbling from FBI Director James Comey’s letter to members of Congress announcing new emails pertinent to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, seemed on the verge of collapse.

Then things began to shift. Baier said on Thursday that he had spoken “inartfully” when he mentioned a likely indictment. On Friday, he moved past that to a full apology: “That just wasn’t inartful, it was a mistake and for that I'm sorry.”...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/tracking-the-fbi-stories-about-clinton/506642/?utm_source=feed


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