A solid 24 hours after Fox News reported the massive bombshell that the FBI was pursuing a criminal investigation into the Clinton Foundation, the liberal “Big Three” networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were scrambling to defend Clinton Thursday evening. While failing to report the news at all that same morning, CBS and NBC claimed that it was a crazy lie Donald Trump was tell his supporters, while ABC and the Spanish-language networks censored the story entirely.
Instead of reporting on the bombshell news, ABC’s World News Tonight dedicated an over 4 minute long puff piece to touting the efforts of Clinton’s campaign and glorifying her campaign surrogates.
“Today in Jacksonville, falsely alleging Clinton is under criminal investigation for the Clinton Foundation,” declared reporter Katy Tur in regards to a Trump rally, on NBC Nightly News. She tried to downplay the investigation as old news, stating, “A senior law enforcement official tells NBC News after an initial look, the case has not moved an inch in months.”
According to the Fox News report, the shocking news comes with an “avalanche of new information coming every day” to the FBI that could lead to an indictment. But CBS’s Major Garret seem quite irked on CBS Evening News by the way Trump was using the news. “Not quite,” interjected Garrett, “CBS News has confirmed that the FBI has looked into the finances of the Clinton Foundation but so far, no charges have been filed.”
In addition to their initial report Wednesday evening, Fox News’ James Rosen had more to report Thursday evening on Special Report.
“The foundation case, as opposed to the e-mail case, is seen by the field agents at the FBI -- my source is well placed source inside the FBI,” Rosen explained, “It is the foundation case that is seen as the stronger of the two, in part because of the way the e-mail case has been conducted.” Rosen also mentioned that his source informed him that the FBI believes multiple entities had breached the meager security measures of Clinton’s personal server.
When it came to reports of a great divide within the FBI Rosen’s source confirmed it:
The field agents are very disappointed that more hasn't been done on both cases. But particularly in the case of the foundation investigation. The field agents believe they have the goods for a case. It's the higher ups, the political appointees and the career prosecutors who tend to be more cautious and are behaving that way in this case.