The Hunting of Hillary - A Conversation with Joe Conason
An uneasy sense of déjà vu comes over me when reading some of the Times coverage, I’m sorry to say. It is troubling to see the Times—still the best and most important American newspaper—continue to publish hostile, unfair, and inaccurate articles about the Clintons, both Hillary and Bill...
Now we are seeing the same old process repeated: Reporters at the Times are leading the assault on Hillary Clinton, with inaccurate stories and slanted leaks from House Republicans on the Benghazi select committee, to cite the sorriest example. Then Fox News and the rest of the right-wing noise machine amplify those erroneous stories, along with much of the mainstream media, which still tends to follow the lead of the Times. That was exactly the pattern during the ‘90s, when the Times first gave its imprimatur to the bogus Whitewater "scandal" as if it were another Watergate—and came to rely heavily on leaks from Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. The Times was not alone in that vein of scandal coverage—many other media outlets were equally culpable...
To be honest, very little surprises me any more when it comes to the topic of the Clintons. What is disgraceful, however, is the willingness of the critics to smear thousands of employees of the Clinton Foundation around the world who have done extraordinary work to save and improve lives of the sick, the poor, and the powerless...
The way that the Times Washington bureau handles Trey Gowdy is all too reminiscent of the way that major media outlets, including the Times, dealt with Ken Starr during Whitewater. Again, we cover this in detail in The Hunting of Hillary, but the short version is that Starr, like Gowdy, leaked to selected reporters—and those reporters never noticed any problems with his "investigation." At least ten investigations of the Benghazi tragedy have been completed, including a few overseen by congressional Republicans, and none have substantiated any of the wild wing-nut accusations against Hillary Clinton. The only truly useful investigation—an Accountability Review Board convened by the State Department—disciplined a number of officials, some with fairly harsh sanctions.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/02/1406881/-The-Hunting-of-Hillary-A-conversation-with-Joe-Conason?showAll=yes
I hope I did this correctly. Joe Conason is a national treasure, a frequent guest on Al Franken's late, lamented Air America show. This is a great read, IMHO.
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Lyons and Conason are voices of truth in the wilderness. 
