*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
Friday, July 24, 2015
Washington, DC – Correct The Record released the following statement on the New York Times’ faulty reporting on Hillary Clinton’s emails.
“Here we go again. The New York Times prints a bogus story on Hillary Clinton’s emails, and, within no time at all, Trey Gowdy and his ‘Select Committee to Destroy Hillary Clinton’ put out a statement making even more outrageous claims and demands,” said Brad Woodhouse, President of Correct The Record. “It’s not a coincidence.”
“Time and time again, the New York Times has had to walk back its claims about Hillary Clinton’s emails. The common thread is thin sourcing, excess hype, and a tag-team rollout with the hyper-partisan, Republican-led House Benghazi circus–which has abandoned any pretense of investigating that tragedy in favor of simply harassing Hillary Clinton for political dividends.
“This whole thing is a farce. Elijah Cummings, the ranking member of the committee, flagged that the State Department Inspector General directly disputed that any criminal investigation was called for at all. Now, the Justice Department is flatly denying that any criminal referral was received.
“For months, questions on Hillary Clinton’s emails have been asked and answered. Instead, the media has become a willing partner in Trey Gowdy and House Republicans’ efforts to bury the truth in favor of utterly baseless melodrama. Enough is enough. It’s time for respectable news outlets to do more than take the word of partisan sources, and it’s time for everyone to treat Trey Gowdy and his bogus investigation for the joke that it is.”
Correct The Record is a strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks.
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