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riversedge

(70,242 posts) Mon Aug 3, 2015, 02:43 AM Aug 2015

Carl Bernstein Rips NY Times For Erroneous Clinton Email Story: "It Was A Travesty"

http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/08/02/carl-bernstein-rips-ny-times-for-erroneus-clint/204713

Carl Bernstein Rips NY Times For Erroneous Clinton Email Story: "It Was A Travesty"
Bernstein: "It Was A Reportorial And Institutional Failure Of The Kind We Rarely See. Hopefully We Won't See It Again"

Video ››› August 2, 2015 12:47 PM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF

From the August 2 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources:

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Carl Bernstein Rips NY Times For Erroneous Clinton Email Story: "It Was A Travesty" (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2015 OP

yet she's still leading all GOP candidates outside the MoE ericson00 Aug 2015 #1

The NY Times did not even read the "referral" letter. It took someone's word for it. SunSeeker Aug 2015 #2

Thank you, SunSeeker! n/t pnwmom Aug 2015 #4

Thanks. riversedge Aug 2015 #6

Mahalo riversedge~ Thank you, Carl Bernstein. Cha Aug 2015 #3

KnR Hekate Aug 2015 #5

ericson00

(2,707 posts)

1. yet she's still leading all GOP candidates outside the MoE

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Mon Aug 3, 2015, 03:17 AM

Aug 2015

nice try, media

SunSeeker

(51,571 posts)

2. The NY Times did not even read the "referral" letter. It took someone's word for it.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 03:39 AM

Aug 2015

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Here are the pdfs of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) letter(s) on the OIG website: https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-15-04-05.pdf

As you can see, these OIG letters are about the proper way for the State Department to review the emails for disclosure in response to FOIA requests. It has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton's handling of the emails. The very last page of the above OIG pdf link is the June 29, 2015 letter, which is attached as an exhibit to their July 17, 2015 letter at the above OIG link. This June 29, 2015 letter is what the NYT had initially described as a "criminal referral" regarding Clinton's handling of her emails. As you can see from that letter, it had nothing to do with Hillary's handling of the emails.

It is clear the NYT never bothered to actually READ the letter before printing what some unnamed source (Trey Gowdy?) claimed it said.