itter Files footnote (3) // (Scott Johnson).
Adam Goldman is a national security establishment’s preferred reporter for promoting the Russia hoax. According to the Times, Goldman was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for 2018 for national reporting on Russia’s meddling in the Presidential election. Those of you who don’t get your news from the Times know that the FBI was more influential than any foreign government in the 2016 presidential election.
Today, Goldman channels the FBI’s response to the disclosure of its role in the Twitter Files. Goldman, along with Alan Feuer, gives us the “Republicans Pounce” variations in “Republicans Rise Up Attacks on F.B.I. It Investigates Trump .”
It is so bad! The Star Tribune picked up the story, although it has yet to inform its readers about the Twitter Files revelations. Feuer and Goldman indirectly refer to the Twitter Files when they mention one prong in the FBI whistleblowers’ suspension letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, and a lengthy report issued by Republican House Judiciary Committee employees:
The majority of the criticisms in the Suspendables letter to Mr. Wray (who was appointed by Donald Trump) echo those made by the Judiciary Committee. The panel’s report condemned the bureau’s use of counterterrorism tactics to investigate conservative parents attending school board meetings. This allegation seemed to be based on a mischaracterization by the F.B.I.’s plan for tracking threats of violence against school board members.
The report also accused the agency of “helping Big Tech censor Americans’ political expression” — a claim that was inaccurately portrayed the F.B.I.’s actual role. Online disinformation has been a problem for years, especially when it comes to foreign actors. Before the House report and the letter to Mr. Wray were released, Mr. Trump’s allies in Congress as well as the news media were already targeting federal law enforcers and demonizing anyone who looked into the former president.
Poor readers who get their news from The Times and Star Tribune. What’s that bit about Big Tech censorship? Feuer and Goldman simply follow the FBI’s line, while omitting any explanation of the underlying facts and evidence that led to it. Feuer and Goldman simply repeat the FBI ploy.
In part 2 my footnotes, I reported on the Star Tribune’s failure to cover the Twitter Files earlier in the week. The Star Tribune’s publication of and promotion for the Goldman/Feuer Times story completes the picture.
Donald Trump’s supporters, including Republicans poised to take control of the House next month, have intensified their attacks against the FBI. They seek to undermine the bureau just like it has taken the lead in a variety of investigations into Trump. https://t.co/PI4sWCjw3X
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune December 28, 2022
