By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives March 26, 2019
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…”However, Barr’s letter to members of Congress Sunday summarizing the Mueller report shows Trump did not receive a complete exoneration. Moreover, the report contains information we need to see in order to safeguard our election process from interference from foreign entities. “Regarding Mueller’s investigation into whether the president obstructed justice, Barr quoted Mueller as writing: “While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”This is the byline Fox News ran under Under her massive front page photo: “By Donna Brazile | Fox News”. Yo, Fox News: Why do we need Donna Brazile to tell us ‘What “WE” really need to learn from the Mueller report’ when “We” already knew before Mueller tabled his report?!
“Redactions should cover only sources and methods that need to be protected for national security reasons.”“Security reasons” mattered diddly-squat to Brazile back in the 2016 presidential race, it says here. Brazile continued: “House Republicans joined Democrats in a 420-0 vote calling for the entirety of the special counsel’s report on Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election to be made public. We have infinitely more to fear from secrecy than from sunshine.
“Foreign interference in our election process is nothing short of an existential threat to our democracy. Beyond having the right to read the Mueller report, we as citizens have a civic duty to read it. “For once in our national discourse, the phrase “our democracy depends upon it” is literally true. We must learn the full extent of Russian interference during the 2016 election, what tricks are in the Russian playbook, what they are doing now, and what they are likely to do over the next 19 months to interfere in the 2020 election.”
“There is a pattern of secretive contacts between Trump’s inner circle, Russian agents and their allies, and WikiLeaks, Brazile stated. “Four of Trump’s top aides have lied to federal officials about their Russian contacts: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn; Deputy Campaign Chairman Rick Gates; campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos; and Michael Cohen, who was Trump’s lawyer and “fixer” since 2006. (Brazile, Fox News) “They lied to federal investigators. They lied to Congress. They even lied on their applications for security clearances. If there was nothing to hide, why did they lie so repeatedly and so pervasively? “We know for certain that the Russian government has been hacking into the American political process. Twenty-five Russian intelligence operatives and experts in social media manipulation – as well as three Russian business entities – are among those indicted in the Mueller probe. “I know something about those cyberattacks firsthand, since I was the chair of the Democratic National Committee when it was the Kremlin’s Target No. 1.”
“Mueller’s report contains invaluable information. Our salvation lies in what we do with the information contained in the report. And the only vindication anyone will get is if we can use that information to prevent future election interference from Russia or any foreign entity. (Fox) “Yes, the Mueller report is about the 2016 election. But, more importantly, it’s about our upcoming elections. We can’t stop anything from happening again if we don’t know what happened before.”For the sake of recognizing propaganda when we see it, a closer look is needed at how Brazile landed, kerplunk at Fox News. The road leads straight back to ex-President Barack Obama’s longtime senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who joined forces with Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch on immigration reform back in 2014. “The two dined at the posh Blue Duck Tavern on Tuesday night in Washington's Foggy Bottom, and Jarrett described the evening as “very enjoyable.” (Washington Examiner, June 20, 2014)
“Good policy sometimes makes strange bedfellows,” she told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor Friday, adding that she was impressed by Murdoch's passion for passing comprehensive immigration reform. “He is an immigrant himself and he understands from a business perspective how important immigration reform would be to our economy,” she said. “... Sometimes decisions are tough but it's time for Congress to step up and act now — and that's something he said privately to me, and I was heartened to see him express it publicly.” “The next morning, Wall Street Journal readers awoke to an editorial by Murdoch, the paper's owner, calling on Congress to take action and pass comprehensive immigration reform and stressing its benefits to the business community and the economy.”Murdoch’s uber-Liberal son, Lachlan Murdoch now has the final say at ‘Fair and Balanced’ Fox News. Did Jarrett press them to make room for Donna Brazile as a Fox News contributor? Meanwhile, Brazile’s front page Fox diatribe notwithstanding, the Mueller Report made it clear there was no collusion in its findings. Best of all in the more than two years of Progressive lies that followed the election of Donald J. Trump as president, it’s the kind of news impossible to suppress
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.