New York Times admits it quashed Trump - Russia story that the FBI asked it not to publish

[Farmgirl1961]

In a stunning revelation today, the Public Editor of the New York Times has announced that her newspaper held off from publishing a story during the election season about Donald Trump’s secret ties to Russia, after the FBI discouraged publication. She’s acknowledging that the story could have “upended” the presidential election between Trump and Hillary Clinton, and she’s criticizing her own newspaper for having been too “timid” in pulling its punches.

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http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/new-york-times-admits-it-quashed-trump-russia-story-that-the-fbi-asked-it-not-to-publish/1050/

[JHan]

1. Yeah they dampened the story with the quickness...

"The FBI discouraged publication"

But BS email stories were fine.

right.

[C Moon]

19. grrrrrrrr!

[JI7]

2. fuck the FBI

[CentralMass]

27. Seriously

[nolabels]

29. They need to change their name to 'F.B.&T.'

Federal Burros and Traitors

They are either Asses or Traitors or maybe both

[meow2u3]

39. Let's just call them the FAT

Feckless Asses and Traitors.

[doc03]

3. While the New York office of the FBI was leaking

stuff to 911 Rudy.

[DK504]

52. Shades W. and Darth Vader's admin.

They had the press quash a lot of stories about Iraq and W's complacently in the illegal aspects of their war.

[Amaryllis]

4. I wonder what exactly consitutes "discouraged" on the part of the FBI.

[raccoon]

46. You mean, such as making them a deal they couldn't refuse?

This story is infuriating.

[arthritisR_US]

5. Let this be congressional evidence ffs.

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[dhill926]

6. oh...ok, then...

well...never mind...

[malaise]

32. But but but Hillary's email email email email

email

[sarcasmo]

42. Benghazi!!!!!!!!!!

[Laffy Kat]

7. I'll be canceling my Sunday subscription. nt

[raccoon]

47. Let them know why you did it. nt

[Laffy Kat]

53. Oh, I will. nt

[elmac]

8. sniffles is doing a lot of discouraging right now

shutting down many of the Federal web sites, keeping information away from those in need. The brown shirt Nazi fascist FBI will be a fine fit for the Fourth Reich.

[Phoenix61]

9. Too "timid"?

Is that what you call it? How about gutless? How about forsaking the standards of ethical journalism? How dare you! And now you want to absolve yourself of all guilt? Sorry, you're a day late and a dollar short.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

16. +1000

[tblue37]

65. How about *complicit*?! nt

[uponit7771]

10. w.....t.....f ?!?!

[a kennedy]

45. and I'll say WHAT THE FAWK???

[Liberal In Texas]

12. It's a bit late, isn't it? n/t

[SunSeeker]

13. Fucking cowards.

[LaydeeBug]

14. they reap what they sow

[NBachers]

15. The same nest of slimeball rats that worked with Giuliani & Putin to sabotage Clinton's election.

Our government has been overthrown by traitor collaborators and foreign enemies.

[red dog 1]

56. "It was a coup...end of story. It is time to fight'

IT WAS A COUP...END OF STORY...IT IS TIME TO FIGHT...CALL THE DOJ, DEM. SENATORS AND THE POTUS.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512618383

[ProudProgressiveNow]

17. K&R nt

[liberalhistorian]

18. And yet they had no problem

whatsoever printing anything at all, no matter how trivial and/ or unverified, about the stupid Clinton email bullshit non-story. Fuck them and fuck the goddamned traitorous FBI cabal responsible.

[deurbano]

21. Clinton Cash! Clinton Cash! Clinton Cash! Fuck the NYT.

[C Moon]

20. Maybe they're admitting it because it's possible it will come up in the investigation.

Job well done New York Times.
I think it's time you left New York.

[Cha]

22. Fucking FBI.. yeah they didn't fuck with the election so

Hillary would lose.

[orangecrush]

23. Our institutions

Beginning with the free press, have failed us.

[videohead5]

24. This is a Coup

By the FBI.why did they tell the NY times not to run the story then send the letter about Hillary's e-mails?...this stinks to high heaven.

[kairos12]

51. At the NYTs to the list of Quislings who got Orange Julius installed.

[Akamai]

25. Fuck them and the horses they rode in on! We effing Dems are too effing nice!

[chimpymustgo]

49. Are Dem leaders "too effing nice" or too effing compromised/complicit?

I truly wonder.

[Akamai]

54. Not talking about them as much as Dems in general. But I sure do think that Dems did not get vocally

angry enough in opposition to the Republicans, to main stream press, etc.

[rwheeler31]

26. Is there any way to sue the paper in order to flush out those agents involved?

We need to keep this in the news or the hearings will be ignored.

[workinclasszero]

28. NYT made the russian coup a reality

Thanks slime ball traitors!

[democratisphere]

30. Once again this falls on the Director.

Unfreakingbelievable!

[Achilleaze]

31. Free clue to the NYT: Do your freaking job

A disgusting dereliction of duty. No excuse.

[riversedge]

33. Kand REC

[HipChick]

34. FFS..and now we are stuck with Pimeto head

[dalton99a]

35. Just as suspected

[spanone]

36. and now that the fascists are in office they fess up. thanks for nothing.

[onethatcares]

37. and we"ll get a bunch

of overly shaved men with soft hands pontificating on the teevee about how no one could have seen this happening. They will go to their respective districts and talk about how sad a day it was for our country. The fbi will be given a tap on the wrist and will offer up 6 underlings and a mid level manager. The records will be sealed for 50 years and we will be told the system works. HooRah!!!

[Ilsa]

38. Chicken shit NYT. nt

[chimpymustgo]

50. Let us not forget how the NYT sat on the Bush/NSA spying story will AFTER his "re-election."

Let's not forget Judith Miller was their "star reporter."

[Tatiana]

40. Oh yeah, NYT, where are the WMDs? And tell us more about Chalabi.

Worthless when it really counts!

They are probably infiltrated too.

[Wounded Bear]

41. It's more money for them....

pushing investigations into a sitting "President" than having a real President that would actually do boring shit like building roads and bridges and trying to stop wars.

[cbdo2007]

43. They will sell more papers trying to take down Pres Trump...

Than they would have with 4 years of boring Hillary.

The news media only makes money in times of tradegy, scandal, etc. Why else would they do this and then immediately install 5 new investigative reporters in Washington the day of the inauguration?? This is all about them selling papers, winning Pulitzers, and national recognition like the guys who investigated Watergate.

[Scurrilous]

44. They have a history of this:

New York Times’ Eavesdropping Story Wasn’t The Only One Squashed For Bush During 2004 Campaign

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/new-york-times-eavesdropp_b_27741.html


And they'll be doing it again next election.

[BSdetect]

48. Yes, let the BS spread re emails, Benghazi but never publish anything anti drumph?

Free Press?

[Turbineguy]

55. I seem to recall

that Bush spiked many federal agencies with political hacks put into the civil service system so they did not get the chop when he left the WH. Maybe the FBI needs a good cleaning.

[milestogo]

57. Fuck you NYT and stop asking me to pay for a subscription.

[uponit7771]

58. +1

[spanone]

59. what the fuck, eh times? if we EVER needed the media WE NEED IT NOW.

[Stellar]

60. I suppose it was Comey who asked them to delay the...

report!

[red dog 1]

61. "The FBI is Trumpland"

(From November 3, 2016)
"The FBI is Trumpland': Anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say"

Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told The Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.
Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record, have described a chaotic internal climate that resulted from outrage over Director Comey's July decision not to recommend an indictment over Clinton's maintenance of a private email server on which classified information transited.
"The FBI is Trumpland," said one current agent.

More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141615262


K&R, thanks for posting!

[retrowire]

62. no worries nyt, it wouldn't have done a thing!

If the Access Hollywood video didn't do it, nothing would.

[Mr. Sparkle]

63. You literally couldnt make this shit up. Fu The New York Times

[Generator]

64. I still hate the NY Times I read the WA Post

NY Times was always false equivalence with Hillary hate. Even Forbes as had good stuff on Russian Trump ties. So has WSJ. NY Times is so overrated-I agree with Trump on something hell has frozen-also people pointed out he doesn't go after the ones that really hurt him the most in his tweets. Interesting no?

[johnp3907]

66. Yeah, but NOW we can trust them!

[cstanleytech]

67. So Comey nearly breaks a leg to get his story about Hillary out and then nearly breaks one

to stop a story about Trump from getting out? Now is anyone really shocked?