60 Minutes' used 'planted' questions (in Assange interview), Hillary Clinton email says

[magical thyme]

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/media/hillary-clinton-60-minutes-planted-questions/

CBS's "60 Minutes" used questions "planted" by the State Department in a 2011 interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, a State Department aide told Hillary Clinton in a newly released email.

"I just received confirmation from 60 Minutes that a piece on Julian Assange will air Sunday night," Philip Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, wrote to Clinton in 2011. "He will be the only person featured. We had made a number of suggestions for outside experts and former diplomats to interview to 'balance' the piece. 60 Minutes assures me that they raised a number of questions and concerns we planted with them during the course of the interview. We will be prepared to respond to the narrative Assange presents during the program."

....Crowley's email was released Thursday by the State Department as part of an ongoing release of emails from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. It is the fifth such batch of emails to be released amid the ongoing controversy over Clinton's use of a private email server. ..

....The State Department email is at the very least a blow to "60 Minutes," which has endured a number of controversies in recent years. It was embarrassed by a Lara Logan report on the 2012 Benghazi raid that relied on information from a supposed witness who was later determined to not have been present during the attack. And interviews with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander were widely panned as being fawning and promotional.

[boston bean]

1. Who cares? nt

[last1standing]

2. No one who supports government manipulation of the press.

The rest of us find this disturbing.

[boston bean]

4. You think the gov't providing information that represents their side is manipulation?

PLEASE!

[last1standing]

7. When even the government calls it "planting," yes.

But I understand how having to maneuver through Hillary's constantly changing positions and repeated skirting the edge of the law could weaken a supporter's grasp on this kind of thing.

[boston bean]

11. You don't understand a thing about it.

She has been a steadfast democrat her entire career, more than we can say for some...

GUNZ anyone!

[last1standing]

13. So was Kim Davis. 224,000 murdered as a resut of a YES vote for IWR anyone?

But I appreciate your cogent rebuttal. Dismissing a viewpoint without any actual counter argument is what all the kewl kids are doing this fall.

Deflection is Pure Hillary!

[boston bean]

14. Because of the IWR, someone can't be against the proliferation of guns in the USA?

Ok.... If that is your measuring stick. It's not mine.

[last1standing]

15. Wow! More strawman arguments and deflection to ignore the murder of 224,000 people.

But most of them were brown, weren't they?

At least she learned her lesson and didn't push us into the same thing in Libya.

errr..... never mind.


Well, so long as she got the bill paid on those FaceBook "likes," it's all good. Gotta keep that image up!

[boston bean]

16. I'm not the one doing the ignoring. nt

[last1standing]

20. Then explain why Hillary voting for the slaughter of Iraqis was acceptable.

Or didn't she think those bombs and bullets would actually harm people?

[boston bean]

21. Why is Bernies stance on guns acceptable to you.

If this is the framing you want to use, then right back at ya.

[last1standing]

23. Why are you deflecting?

Senator Clinton voted to slaughter Iraqis so she could look strong on foreign affairs, then did it again by pushing to invade Libya. Why won't you answer my earlier question?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. Cuz unpleasant facts must be ignored, or

Deflected, or the inevitable one may lose.

[A Simple Game]

34. I was told by a big H supporter that if it happened over a year ago it didn't count any more.

Water under the bridge or over the dam, who cares?

Honest, that's what I was told. Excepting any erotic writings by other candidates of course.

[thesquanderer]

36. Bernie's stance on guns is just fine.

Okay, he only has a D- rating from the NRA instead of an F.

Even assuming you only want a candidate with an F, Hillary is less than perfect on a few issues herself.

[sabrina 1]

17. She used to be a Republican.

Can't imagine, even in my early years, being a Republican. An Independent maybe, but the party of anti women, anti-gays, anti-Social programs. Nope, couldn't have supported that party even as a child.

But she evolved, good for her. So did Chafee. Going from the right to the left is a good thing.

Bernie otoh, was always on the Left another reason why he has the long, consistent Democratic record on the issues that he has.

[boston bean]

18. funny. nt

[sabrina 1]

25. Facts can be amusing when they wipe the floor with innuendo. Give me a Leftie any day, regardless of

the letter after their names, over a Rightie, see that Davis character who had a D after HER name eg until last week. Just goes to show, that letter doesn't always tell us much.

Liebermann eg, another example of the letter not meaning much.

Didn't he leave the Dem Party after the people threw him out, form his own, endorse McCain/Palin, then return to the Senate to a standing ovation from DEMS. Was given privileged positions within the party where he held power only a DEM, or at least a Leftie, should have held?

And then where were those over 60 Dems in NJ who endorsed Christie over the Dem.

So much for that letter. Lots more and maybe it's time to put it all together so we can see where our party needs to be fixed, who, wearing our letter, needs to go etc.

[HooptieWagon]

27. Defending propaganda now?

Does Camp Weathervane have no shame?

[boston bean]

28. I'm defending the state department to speak with reporters

and juxtapose questions, if they are refusing to offer a state dept rep to also be interviewed.

So??

[jeff47]

40. To answer your second question, No. (nt)

[Fawke Em]

42. Yeah, coz a D- rating from the NRA proves one is a gun nut.

Sorry, but that dog won't hunt (pun intended).

[artislife]

38. snap! nt

[quickesst]

6. Not me

Just wasted a minute of my life, well, now a minute and a half....wait.... nevermind.

[Mojorabbit]

47. I do. I have blown off most of

the negative info that has been floated here about her and have kept my mind open....but this I can't blow off. I don't want a president who thinks it is fine to plant info with the press.

[Autumn]

3. That certainly is revealing. .

And disgusting. The choice gets clearer day by day

[quickesst]

10. Haha....

I think it's pretty obvious that the anti Clinton crowd finds the fact that she is breathing air "disgusting".

[Indepatriot]

32. Correct. Because not wanting someone to

be President and wanting them dead is the EXACT SAME THING. Is it mandatory for HRC supporters to attend Drama Camp? Perhaps a "Victim Workshop"?

[quickesst]

37. You are right..

... about me being correct, but the rest of your response is just gobble-d-gook which I take as a poor attempt to insinuate that I am accusing someone of wanting Hillary dead. Big difference between what I actally said as opposed to your dramatic interpretation. Try harder, but then again, maybe you shoudn't.

[mcar]

5. So 60 Minutes refused

To have anyone on to counter Assange but did use some questions the State Dept suggested.

Sounds like State's PR team was doing their job. How is this an issue at all?

[magical thyme]

8. you may want to tell that to "60 Minutes'" spokesperson, because he took issue with the claim

"60 Minutes" spokesman Kevin Tedesco took issue with Crowley's portrayal of the situation and accused him of trying to curry favor with Clinton.

"The idea of a 'plant' is as preposterous as this email writer's attempt to get credit from his boss," Tedesco told CNNMoney.


It may be Hillary's PR people doing their job, but it sure makes 60 Minutes look like they're trying to curry favor with...someone.

[mcar]

22. That would be 60 Minutes problem then

Not HRC's

[JoePhilly]

9. Finally ... the smoking gun email!!!!!

Oh wait ... this one isn't it either?

Only ~29,997 to go I guess.

[BlueWaveDem]

12. All newspapers and journalists have to

Clear with State Dept to make sure no national security secrets are leaked that may put agents or military overseas in harms way.

[magical thyme]

19. All newspapers/journalists have to clear interviews with anybody? or specifically Assange?

[jeff47]

41. Uh, no. See, there's this thing called the First Amendment.

They can report anything. That's why things like the Pentagon Papers were reported on.

The fact that journalists now covet access more than facts didn't change what they are required to do. Many reporters are willingly throwing away their ethics for dinner party invitations.

[Fawke Em]

44. No they don't.

I never had to ask any governmental official for bupkus before I reported on them.

It's called "FREEDOM of the press" for a reason.

[valerief]

26. And who, with two brain cells to rub together, is surprised by this?

60 Minutes went deep six ages ago.

[Todays_Illusion]

29. No one mentioning the obvious, CBS's willing cooperation.

And what the heck is wrong with the U.S. State Department looking after national interests?
Not to mention our MSM still after all the evidence to the contrary support the Oswald did it, and it has been since then that we have had nothing but propaganda and manipulation called news.

[magical thyme]

30. I thought that was the point of the articl. As I wrote in post #8, State was successful in their PR

but what does this say about 60 Minutes? So much for "independent media."

That's why 60 Minutes is denying it. Not that they had a shred of credibility left, but this kills their credibility in their own eyes...

[Todays_Illusion]

46. I say 60 Minutes sold out long ago like 1963 along with all the others and nothing but corporate

propaganda and anti-liberal attacks since 1981.

They cooperate with union busters, anti-consumer billionaires/bankers, the anti-environmental and did nothing but celebrity interviews for years.


60 minutes, also got dirty on the Benghazi bs.

[whereisjustice]

31. Team Hillary, Covert Ops. They actually used the term "planted" didn't they. Serious wankers...

"Mama Bear, Mama Bear, come in Mama Bear, farmer Dave says the field is plowed and planted, awaiting rain... over"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

33. She's for a free press...sort of, sometimes, when conditions allow, or elections are looming.

[KoKo]

35. ...!

[PowerToThePeople]

39. Main stream propaganda machine

Shed more light on the bullcrap that is pulled on the public.

[Zorra]

43. Off topic, but has anyone noticed the enormous number of low post posters who

have joined DU recently, the vast majority of whom are not supporters of Bernie Sanders?

[Fawke Em]

45. Probably coordinated over at the Camp Weathervane site. eom