CNN Jaw-dropper: Erin Burnett Asks If 'Postpartum Psychosis' Led to Mass Killing

Scott Whitlock | December 4, 2015
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Struggling to offer an alternative explanation for the obvious conclusion of terrorism, CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday wondered if one of the killers from Wednesday’s rampage snapped as a result of “postpartum psychosis.” This was after two former FBI agents explained to Burnett just how Tashfeen Malik was radicalized.  Despite this, the CNN anchor wondered, “I just have to ask you, could there be something else, anything else that could have explained her involvement? Something like a postpartum psychosis?” Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente calmly told Burnett that “postpartum psychosis... is typically internal.”