re: #133 BeachDem

She has always been a dirtball—from 2020

It’s distressing when a mainstream media outlet is so anxious to make nice with conservatives that they hire someone like Catherine Herridge, whose career is filled with misinformation work. But that’s what CBS did, despite the reporter’s long and shameful history of acting more as a Republican partisan than a straight news reporter.

Back in January 2016, she reported what she thought was a big Fox News scoop: No fewer than 150 FBI agents were investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails and the private server she used while serving as secretary of state. The number, as part of Herridge’s exclusive report based on anonymous sources, was shocking. If the FBI had assigned 150 agents to fan out across the country and were treating the Clinton email case as one of the most pressing crime probes in the country, akin to a terrorist attack investigation, then of course Fox News’ favorite controversy at the time must represent a truly blockbuster scandal, right? I mean, 150 agents. It turns out Herridge was off by roughly 140 agents.

Herridge also volunteered her duties to the GOP during the 2016 campaign to spread misinformation about the Clinton emails and the Clinton Foundation. That year, Herridge reported an “exclusive” on the known hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar (aka “Guccifer”), bragging about how he “easily — and repeatedly — breached former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton’s personal email server.” But as the FBI confirmed, the whole Herridge story was based on a lie

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The chances she was a long term Russian asset grows.