Asking broad and open-ended questions which allowed Hillary Clinton to shift towards generic partisan and left-wing talking points, CBS’s John Dickerson essentially assisted the former first lady in producing a campaign infomercial masquerading as a segment of journalism.
Host of the left-wing network’s flagship Sunday show Face The Nation, Dickerson refused to challenge Clinton’s misleading statements and evasions pertaining to her use of a private server with which to send and receive emails in her former capacity as Secretary of State.
Below are the questions Dickerson asked Clinton about her private email server:
“Let me ask you about developments in the investigation into your email server. Apparently the FBI has contacted your team in terms of talking to you, what can you tell us about that?”
“So they, so nobody said, ‘Hillary Clinton, we’d like to interview you,’ from the FBI?”
“If there is this moment, where voters are – looking now in a general election context, they’re thinking of you versus Donald Trump – some voters may be paying attention now in a different kind of way. What’s your answer to those people who think, ‘Gee, FBI inquiry. That’s a big deal.’ What do you say to them?”
“So a voter will know, when Hillary Clinton’s a president in the office, and a convenient option arrives, maybe she’ll think twice about it?”
No challenge was provided by Dickerson towards Clinton’s misleading statement that no emails she sent or received we “marked classified” at the times of their sending and reception, given that her role as Secretary of State put her in a position to send and receive original emails prior to subsequent classification by any intelligence agency.
Also ignored was Clinton’s signing of a non-disclosure agreement, in which the likely Democratic presidential nominee committed to the responsible handling of state secrets.
No questions were asked about the Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar – AKA “Guccifer” – who was extradited to the United States on or around March 31, possibly in connection to the ongoing FBI investigation into Clinton’s handling of state secrets.
David Rhodes, President of CBS News, is the brother of President Barack Obama’s national security speechwriter Ben Rhodes.
Throughout her interview with Dickerson, Clinton repeatedly called on the media to ask Donald Trump more pointed questions and challenge him more forcefully.
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