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CNN’s reported prime time ratings decline of 16% last month seems set to continue

CNN ratings decline set to continue as Trump-hatred affects reporting



CNN ratings decline set to continue as Trump-hatred affects reportingCNN has attempted to downplay the news that investigators have so far issued 23 violations and seven infractions for security incidents against 15 people over the mishandling of classified information found in emails on Hillary Clinton's private server when she was Secretary of State. CNN's report was headlined:
"Facts First Fact-checking Trump's tweet about Hillary Clinton email review".
Trump's tweet stated:
Wow! The State Department said it has identified 30 Security Incidents involving current or former employees and their handling of Crooked Hillary Clinton's Emails. @FoxNews This is really big. Never admitted before. Highly Classified Material. Will the Dems investigate this?
CNN's "Facts First" asserted:
"It is true that the State Department recently told Congress about 30 incidents it had found as part of an ongoing security review, but the information is not entirely new, and there's no telling how egregious those lapses were. There was no mention of "highly classified material" in a letter the agency sent to a senior Republican senator earlier this month."

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CNN's "Facts" were deceptive and misleading. In claiming the information "is not entirely new" --CNN reported:
" The FBI has previously said that of the 30,000 emails Clinton provided to the State Department from her server back in 2014, 110 contained classified information at the time they were sent or received. Of those, eight of the email chains contained information classified as "top secret" at the time they were sent or received and 36 chains contained "secret" information."
CNN omitted a few pertinent details contained in FBI Director Comey's statement:
"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were "up-classified" to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent. The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the private e-mail domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived government e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond.

"This helped us recover work-related e-mails that were not among the 30,000 produced to State. Still others we recovered from the laborious review of the millions of e-mail fragments dumped into the slack space of the server decommissioned in 2013. With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level. There were no additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of those we found have since been "up-classified."
The big news is that the Department of State has assessed culpability to 15 individuals - some of whom were culpable in multiple security incidents. CNN's reported prime time ratings decline of 16% last month seems set to continue. CNN’s reported prime time ratings decline of 16% last month seems set to continue.


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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com


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