Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn write for FoxNews.com about major media outlets’ apparent disinterest in the latest news emerging from the nation’s top intelligence official.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested last week that intelligence was “manufactured and politicized” by the most powerful people in the Obama administration in 2016 and Americans will finally learn the truth, but legacy media outlets didn’t take the announcement particularly seriously.
On Friday, Gabbard declassified documents revealing “overwhelming evidence” that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the years-long Trump–Russia collusion probe.
ABC News and NBC News failed to cover the story on-air through Sunday, according to a search of transcripts using Grabien Media.
CBS News addressed the story Sunday on “Face the Nation,” when anchor Margaret Brennan asked Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., if there is a “legal basis” for prosecution. Himes told CBS viewers that Gabbard peddled a “dangerous lie” that has no basis for prosecution.
“When you start throwing around language like ‘treason,’ somebody will get hurt,” Himes said. “There is not a judge [in] the land that will treat this with anything other than laughter.”
NewsBusters analyst Jorge Bonilla was stunned the story was only covered by one of the legacy Sunday public affairs programs after NBC’s “Meet the Press” and ABC’s “This Week” ignored it.
“Rest assured, it wasn’t a bipartisan panel segment or an interview with Gabbard – but CBS’s Margaret Brennan bringing on the ranking House Intel Democrat in order to firefight the release and subsequent actions,” Bonilla wrote.
CNN mentioned the Gabbard bombshell twice from the time Fox News Digital first reported the news on Friday afternoon through Monday, the first time on Saturday morning and the second time on Monday’s installment of “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
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