By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--September 29, 2019
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The mass media's incessant baying for Trump's blood since his election victory in 2016 helps explain why the latest Gallup poll shows 59% of Americans remain largely mistrustful of the mass media to report the news "fully, accurately and fairly."
Gallup shows that only 13% trust the mass media "a great deal," and 28% "a fair amount".
This is a shocking indictment of the mass media's failure to be accurate and fair."I am reporting an "urgent concern" in accordance with the procedures outlined in 50 U.S.C. §3033(k)(5)(A)."This section reads:
"(5)(A) An employee of an element of the intelligence community, an employee assigned or detailed to an element of the intelligence community, or an employee of a contractor to the intelligence community who intends to report to Congress a complaint or information with respect to an urgent concern may report such complaint or information to the Inspector General."
"The Honorable Richard Burr Chairman Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate and The Honorable Adam Schiff Chairman Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence United States House of Representatives."The New York Times should have added an additional annotation pointing out the unlawfulness of the complainant's action by setting out the provisions of U.S.C. §3033(k)(5)(D)(ii) which states:
(ii) An employee may contact the congressional intelligence committees directly as described in clause (i) only if the employee-(I) before making such a contact, furnishes to the Director, through the Inspector General, a statement of the employee's complaint or information and notice of the employee's intent to contact the congressional intelligence committees directly; and (II) obtains and follows from the Director, through the Inspector General, direction on how to contact the congressional intelligence committees in accordance with appropriate security practices.
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"turn over a whistle-blower complaint made to the inspector general for the intelligence agencies"Schiff's public grilling of Maguire before the House Intelligence Committee this week on why due process was not followed was a sham and seemingly an abuse of his power as Committee Chairman. Schiff's questionable conduct closely follows Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report vindicating the dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey for leaking to the mass media.
"One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective."False, inaccurate and unfair reporting about this complaint will continue notwithstanding--as more readers and viewers of the mass media defect in droves seeking far more credible news and analysis elsewhere. The mass media has again become the media massed against Trump.
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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