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In a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified that he wouldn’t have approved the FBI’s FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign staffer, if he had known the bureau was lying to him and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It was testimony that went unreported on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News, as they all chose to instead fawn for former President Obama’s evening address.
Last year, a Media Research Center study found that the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) spent over 2,200 minutes pushing the Russia collusion hoax before it blew up in their faces. And when the Justice Department’s Inspector General exposed how the FBI had repeatedly lied on their FISA warrant application, the networks downplayed it with one (ABC) defending the error-filled investigation.
So, it came as no surprise when the networks ignored Rosenstein’s testimony.
In contract, Fox News Channel’s Special Report found the time to highlight Rosenstein getting grilled by the committee.
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