After erroneous Trump-Russia report, Brian Ross is out at ABC News

[livingston]

After erroneous Trump-Russia report, Brian Ross is out at ABC News
Reporter Brian Ross is out at ABC News after a 24-year run. Ross was suspended last year after a misleading report about President Trump. From Variety:

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“After more than two decades at ABC News, Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz have decided to leave the company,” ABC News President James Goldston said in a memo to staffers Monday. “Over the years they have built a team of the best investigative journalists in our industry, and they leave behind an outstanding group that will continue to break stories for many years to come.”

But Ross’ reputation was sorely tested in December after he took to ABC in a special report and told viewers erroneously that Trump had directed Flynn when he was a candidate to make Russian contacts. The report prompted the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall more than 300 points and a tweet about it was reposted on Twitter tens of thousands of times before ABC clarified on “World News Tonight” that Trump’s instruction came after he was elected.

Ross tweeted the departure on his own account:

Brian Ross

✔ @BrianRoss




It's time to say good-bye after 24 years at ABC News, an organization that has meant so much to us. While Rhonda Schwartz and I are signing off from ABC News, we are hardly leaving investigative journalism. There is much more to do.

1:58 PM - Jul 2, 2018

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  316 pWhen Ross’ erroneous Trump-Russia story first broke, it appeared to be a very big deal. It was the first potential connection linking Trump to a specific request to contact Russia and the left greeted it as proof that collusion was a fact and prison time (or impeachment) was just around the corner. Here’s how the news was greeted on The View before the correction was issued:eople are talking about this

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After erroneous Trump-Russia report, Brian Ross is out at ABC News

 

[livingston]

Such glee from these liberals thinking that trump would be brought down .. Sickening

 

[kev74]

And what about all the other erroneous anti-Trump reports? The truth isn't all that important, I guess.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Nowadays I despise "journalists" as much as I do politicians.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Walk away with your tail between your legs you pathetic excuse for a journalist.

 

[masterswimmer]

Nowadays I despise "journalists" as much as I do politicians.

Yup!

 

[Mosinitis]

Ross can join Dan Rather as a disgraced liar and fabricator.

 

[Twogunwilly]

Should get the Brian Williams award fuckin scumbag.

 

[Podmonkey]

1 and half words; Fuck 'em.

 

[livingston]

Hogwash – Brian Ross Didn’t Resign Over the Fake News Flynn Story, He Resigned Because He Was “Reporter 4” Within James Wolfe Indictment – Senate Intelligence Leak Investigation…
By now everyone has reported about ABC journalist Brian Ross and his Producer Rhonda Swartz resigning from the network. However, almost everyone pointing back to Ross’s fake news report on Michael Flynn in December; and almost no-one is pointing out the more obvious motive for the resignation.

Brian Ross was almost guaranteed to be “Reporter 4” in the federal indictment of Senate former senior senate intelligence committee staffer James Wolfe. The notorious Senate Intelligence “leaker”.
CTH originally pointed this out when the details of the indictment were released (full pdf below), and research was possible to determine each reporter. It did not come as a surprise to see the staff from this specific committee leaking secret and top-secret classified information. The committee rots from the head down.

According to the indictment Wolfe was notified by the FBI of a classified intelligence leak investigation on/around October 30th, 2017. From the indictment we see that Wolfe was interviewed and confronted by FBI investigators on December 15th, 2017. After admitting he lied to those FBI investigators Wolfe resigned from his position.

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[Robin]

I no longer have faith in the integrity of the justice department or the FBI. This saddens and outrages me but I take hope that things will be made right. Who's investigating Sessions, is doing nothing a crime?
Robin

 

[livingston]

I no longer have faith in the integrity of the justice department or the FBI. This saddens and outrages me but I take hope that things will be made right. Who's investigating Sessions, is doing nothing a crime?
Robin

Turley: Sessions’ Appointing Utah Federal Prosecutor Much Better for Trump than 2nd Special Counsel
WASHINGTON, DC – Professor Jonathan Turley, a top national legal expert on government investigations, commented on Thursday about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to bring in U.S. Attorney John Huber. Turley called it “brilliant”to combine all the powers of the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general with a prosecutor who can bring charges, seek indictments, and get results for President Trump far more quickly than a second special counsel.
Turley is a law professor at George Washington University, who attained national fame during the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton as a top legal authority on special counsels and congressional investigations of government wrongdoing, including criminal wrongdoing. His reputation has only grown during the intervening 20 years, as he has weighed in on scandals and investigations of public officials from both political parties.


Sessions sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), informing them that Huber is conducting a full-fledged criminal investigation into all the matters Republicans are calling for a special counsel to investigate. Huber has been investigating these possible crimes for five months, since November 13, 2017.

During an interview on Lou Dobbs’s Fox Business Network show, Turley explained to guest host Stuart Varney that the media are wrongly reporting that Sessions will not appoint a second special counsel. “He did not foreclose the possibility of a special counsel,” he insisted.

Instead, Turley explained that Sessions has ordered Huber to “team up with the inspector general (IG) within the Justice Department to investigate these matters.”

Sessions informed Congress in his letter that all the matters recommended for investigation by Goodlatte, Gowdy, and Grassley are “fully within the scope of [Huber’s] existing mandate.” He also informed the chairmen that Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who is working with Huber, has a staff of 470 investigators, giving Huber access to enormous investigative firepower that far exceeds the staff of any special counsel.
Turley: Sessions’ Using Utah Federal Prosecutor Much Better for Trump than 2nd Special Counsel

Corruption so deep in Washington according to Q anon ... perhaps 30-40 thousand sealed indictments being worked on as we read this ...... IF this is true .... a massive undertaking....

 

[Robin]

Hurrah! Sounds promising.
Robin

 

[livingston]

Hurrah! Sounds promising.
Robin

I believe that there is a lot of things going on in the background that we don't have access to and the mainstream press would never report on if they were allowed to .... There are a host of people sweating and defense lawyers are thumbing through the 10 million Dollar real estate section for their next 5th home overlooking Central park in NY City.
From what I have read we will never see Hillary wearing orange for a few years. I dare say she sleeps well at night. The statue of limitations have run out on all the e-mail stuff ... But there is an awful lot of underlings could do time ... ... The biggest thing in our favor is that all this stuff could start popping around the midterms ... A good reminder of the corruption for voters to consider. ... Stock up of a few hundred pounds of popcorn ... I have a feeling we will go through it in the next few years....