It is becoming harder and harder for the media to ignore the Russiagate scandal. And that difficulty in journalism avoidance just became much more difficult with the announcement that Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury probe.
Unfortunately for them, the distraction excuse for not covering the Russia Hoax is becoming a worn routine and pretending that the damning material in the Durham annex, such as the email of Leonard Bernardo implicating Hillary Clinton as a perpetrator of the Russia Hoax along with high level intelligence officials, is really nothing more than Russian disinformation has already been thoroughly mocked when Rolling Stone attempted that pathetic excuse. So what to do? What to do?
Well, it appears that NBC News seems to have settled on citing supposedly authoritative officials in an attempt to discredit the Russiagate revelations. The big problem is that those officials are also unnamed as you can see presented on Monday by NBC News excuse mongers Michael Kosnar, Dan De Luce, David Rohde and Vaughn Hillyard in "Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama administration review of 2016 election."
Rather than risk allowing reader an extra second or two of contemplation about validity of that probe before reading the body of the report, NBC News immediately provided this Democrat-echo subheading: "Past probes, including two conducted by Republicans, found no such crimes. Democrats have accused Bondi of trying to distract attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal."
It took only three paragraphs into the story before the authors attempted their unnamed officials shtick:
Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed Justice Department prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation of whether Obama administration officials committed federal crimes when they assessed Russia's actions during the 2016 election, a senior Trump administration official said.
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard claimed at a White House news conference last month that top Obama administration officials carried out a “treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump. Gabbard said she was sending criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
A former senior Justice Department official condemned the move as “a dangerous political stunt.” And a former senior national security official pointed out that multiple past reviews, including ones conducted by Republicans, found no such crimes.
"There’s no logical, rational basis for this," said the official, who asked not to be named.
This is where it's extremely relevant whether these "former" officials are Democrats. Of special interest is the unnamed official who was described as "a former senior national security official." This is because of this clarification in the story:
Democrats say Trump is improperly using the levers of government to seek retribution against his political rivals and exercise sweeping powers.
Trump and his supporters have long claimed that intelligence and law enforcement officials sought to undermine his first term by overstating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and investigating Trump’s aides for potential collusion with Moscow.
They have accused former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan of using the probes to damage Trump.
A lawyer for Comey did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Comey and Brennan, who is a paid contributor to NBC News and MSNBC, have denied wrongdoing.
Okay, NBC News. Spill! Was that unnamed "former senior national security official" your paid contributor, John Brennan? Inquiring minds want to know.
