flockofseagulls104 wrote: Why would the MSM ignore this story and label it 'without evidence' when it apparently comes from an 'unnamed source' who named names?
If this unnamed source was willing to talk to the Daily Caller, why did he go to a relatively small outlet like that? Richard Pollock has apparently been around Washington for a long time. Is he the only one who found this guy? I doubt it.
Well, the most obvious answer is that the "unnamed source" probably did go to more reputable news agencies and they wouldn't touch the story because it didn't check out. Contrary to what you may think, the mainstream media is not a gossip column repeating every ugly thing someone says about a politician, even Donald Trump. They check stories, get confirmation, and then publish.
It's not just the mainstream media who have found that Russia was the source of the hacks. Every intelligence agency that has looked into the matter has said so. If Louis Gohmert had this big scoop, why didn't he go to the FBI, CIA, etc. with it?
Here's the Daily Caller's "story":
The Chinese hacked Hillary's private server so that it sent copies of her e-mails to a Chinese company. According to Louis Gohmert (not exactly the most reliable source), the Inspector General's office found that the e-mails were sent to a "foreign entity" he declined to name but said it was unrelated to Russia. The Daily Caller's anonymous sources said that two named IG office officials, Frank Rucker and Janette McMillan, met with the FBI and tried to warn them about the Chinese hack, but nothing was done.
How did the IG's office discover the hack?
“When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails — that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the former intelligence officer told TheDCNF.
Apparently, the Daily Caller verified the surprising fact that there are actually Chinese public companies operating in the part of Virginia where the anonymous source said the e-mails were forwarded.
Now, let me get this straight. Hundreds or thousands of e-mails were forwarded to a single Chinese company, and that information was contained in the metadata, which is one of the first things that any investigation looks at when the examine e-mails, and no one at the FBI investigated further? Does this really seem credible?
And if this story is true, why didn't the "anonymous sources" go to Fox News, where they would undoubtedly get a better reception than from CNN, etc.?