I watched her Catherine Herridge at Fox and felt that she always gave "Just the facts ma'm." My intuition told me she also was a journalist that had integrity. Anyway, I'm glad she has support and also that her old employer is footing some of the bill.
Crazy Hair — “refusing to disclose her sources in her investigation into a taxpayer-funded school in Virginia run by a woman with alleged links to the Chinese military.”
I can see why CBS and the Biden Administration might want to deter investigations of this kind. After all, through his disreputable offspring, Pres. Joe Biden has “links to the Chinese military” that are far more than merely “alleged”!
She is a true patriot who is standing up for all of us. How interesting that the much-maligned Fox News is supporting their former employee while the much-vaunted CBS is not....who is really supporting democratic freedoms?
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the MSM is throwing her under the bus. Those radical left wing loons in the MSM don't want any evidence on the ever senile Joe's crime family.
democratic not to be confused with democrat party of tyrants. Who actually chose candidate Biden? The voters sure didn't. The primary was rigged and it seems the democrats in high office are all pawns of a deep state or a corporate oligarchy. They were instructed not to run and those like Kennedy had to leave the party to have a chance. JFK and Bobby would be shocked to see what has happened to their party.
I'm not sure that rigged is the right word. That word, to me, denotes subterfuge or deceit. joe told his game plan from the beginning. He would fundamentally change this country. It was in the country's face. Translation, the dems will make the new rules by which the power in this country runs roughshod over the citizens ignoring all previous laws, norms and principles as they see fit.
Yip but the only way to have done this in 2020, was at the ballot box - that was the rig, mail ins and ballot harvesting, Australia outlawed this system at the turn of 20th century, why because they couldn’t control the chain of custody of ballots neither the identification of voters. Notice a similarity to our current system however, NOW is the major problem how to we get these DEMOCROOKS out of power. They won’t go quietly Dan.
I voted for Trump the first time. I was a never democrat or never Republican. I quit voting for a couple of go arounds. I viewed Trump as more of third party type but running as a Republican. Biden has proven that no matter how bad you think someone is, Trump, there's a worse one, biden. I loved Trump's policies but not his posts on X, formerly twitter. The main issue being, I didn't care, but it turned voters off. I believe, since the MSM ignores us, that independents will vote in high numbers for Trump as long as he doesn't screw up with his mouth again, biden really doesn't have a chance. The tough part will be getting biden's left over deep state bureaucrats out of government. They are the ones who run the government. But the simple answer is, cut the budget like Republicans use to do, for every executive branch government and then start letting people go. joe can't weaponize fed's employees from budget cuts. Go Brandon!
Indeed, she is a true patriot and , even more rare, a true investigative journalist. If it were not for The Free Press, I'd have thought journalism was dead, replaced by propaganda outlets.
I thought Greenwald was a truth teller until he started spewing hate and lies about Israel and repeating the lies of Hamas. Just goes to show that journalists have their own strong petty prejudices that get in the way of fair and true reporting.
Carol Hasidim — Greenwald’s great flaw is that he is a knee-jerk non-interventionist. So he’s not so good when there’s a strong case for intervention; e.g., when Putin is trying to wipe Ukraine off the map, or Islamic fanatics plan to make the Middle East Judenrein “from the river to the sea”.
Greenwald is consistently a contrarian. He is pro-Hamas and anti-israel. However, unlike others with similar views, he sticks to the facts. I respect him even as I disagree with him strenuously.
Not discounting that support, but the story and the sources for it, were developed while Herridge was at Fox. So Fox actually has an interest in the support. Arguably a contractual obligation.
Methinks there is something fishy about CBS and its behavior.
I always liked Catherine Herridge and have considered her to be the epitome of investigative journalism. Hope protection of sources remains, she gave great testimony.
The tricky thing with anonymous sources is that when they help Democrats they are always spooks and perverts perpetrating a hoax in order to harm Americans.
Catherine Herridge’s sources, on the other hand, are probably very real and need to stay anonymous because otherwise Democrats will send pansexual sociology majors in tactical gear to throw flashbangs into their living rooms.
And then an MSNBC contributor/lawyer will spend the next five years bankrupting them.
"What made it even more alarming was that her notes and files, which contained information on her sources, were seized by her former employer...She eventually retrieved her personal property, but only after enlisting the help of her union"
And only after the FBI, CIA, DHS... copied them and instituted surveillance on every source. The DOJ will now coerce them into further disclosures or bankrupt them with trumped up lawfare charges until they say or do whatever the Blob wants.
Seems the FBI, CIA and DHS no longer act according to the rules of the Constitution. CBS appears to be working with the government by giving them access to private, protected data. Shame on all of them. If there are any truly, independent investigative reporters besides Catherine Herridge, secure your information where it can’t be seized by your employer and the government has to go through proper procedures to get their hands on it. This could be the end of a free and independent press in the USA and we’ll turn into a Russia or China where we have no true freedom. Our young are being taught that freedom is meaningless and unnecessary. I hope they never have to find out what that means.
The United States of America are not the United States of America, and if you don't think that could happen here, you are either naive or dangerously ignornant.
I'm neither. The story about the two young fish and the old fish: old fish asks "how are liking the water?" The two young fish ask, "what's water?" I'm the old fish.
Wendy — By “democracy” they mean a ballot with only Joe Biden’s name on it. It’s like when East Germany called itself the German Democratic Republic. They wish to make sure we don’t vote for the wrong candidate by mistake.
More likely they will be swapped out for the newly-imported MS13 members who will be granted citizenship if they sign up to be trained by the military to assassinate people in red hats.
But I guess the military is 30% transvestites at this point so maybe they will use glitter.
wait, what? is your account for real? what an absurd claim with no data behind it. anonymous sources are not more likely to be real or require anonymity because of us party political affiliation.
It’s shocking but not surprising but the assault on the press goes back to the Obama administration and BO3.0 continues with MSM backing these activities. What’s the connection with Catherine Herridge and Uri Berliner’s Mea culpa of NPR bias and lack of viewpoint diversity? It’s definitely not Trump. It’s a strict ideological progressive worldview where the ends justify the means. Wishing brave journalists like Herridge, Atkinson, Shellenberger, Greenwald, Taibbi, Weiss and all their colleagues Godspeed.
Actually, you can trace the assault on the press back to the John Adams Administration – Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The ink was barely dry on the Bill of Rights (1791) when the Adams administration started locking up journalists who were “democratic republicans” supporting Thomas Jefferson. Human nature is and always will be corrupt. The only way out of this mess is to Seriously Downsize the federal government!! Maybe?
We the People are the Heirs of the American Experiment and We are Squandering Our American Inheritance!
Nope. We haven't lost the fight and we aren't giving up. That would require the total abdication of the American citizens personal moral responsibility to the Constitution (and themselves) while placing their lives in the hands of fascist traitors who serve international criminal financiers. This would have to be an age when tax dollars went unaccounted for by the billions and disappeared into the numbered accounts of financial oligarchs and the lives, pension funds and labor of American citizens could be taken without fear of consequence by corporate hyenas, who could then destroy the American economy, loot the American treasury, gut American industry, write themselves huge bonus checks and go on vacation. The DNC would never let them get away with it. If that happened billionaire cartels could hold private meetings to plan the destruction of the American Republic and call for the arrest and prosecution of free speech while interfering with American political elections as they funded and placed political operatives inside the American judicial system. It's silly to think that. If that happened American elected political leadership would just openly sell political influence. To pull it off they'd have to weaponize the DOJ to destroy its political opponents and journalists would have to join hands with a criminal bureaucratic surveillance state to turn American reality into a lie. It would be like Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. The sense of unreality would be so great that to protect themselves, citizens would have to engage in endless discussions to convince themselves it wasn't really happening.
Nope. We're not giving up ever!! (We're just a little beat up.)
It's confusing how no attempts were made to have CNN, MSNBC, The NYT, et.al. divulge their "confidential sources" when they were claiming Trump enlisted Russian collusion to steal an election from Hillary.
Even after the Mueller Report showed those claims were flat out lies, no one looked into these "sources".
Schiff is a documented poof. That guy is really slimy. And in California's primary, he was urging people to support Republican Steve "Popeye Forearms" Garvey over fellow Dem Katie Porter in the silly top-2-move on system California has.
Can't imagine CBS doing this to, say, Norah O'Donnell, John Dickerson, Margaret Brennan or any of the "investigative reporters" on 60 Minutes. They are all true to the internal narrative. Catherine was the only true journalist on staff at CBS.
...but there was no way I was going to follow her to CBS - CBS also tapped into reporter Sharyl Attkinson's computer - that Herridge trusted them after what they did to Attkinson is mind-boggling....."Attkisson had been frustrated over what she perceived to be the network's liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting"
OMG...we are farther along to becoming a communist country than I had imagined. Just like Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong...no citizen is safe from the leftist progressive agenda.
No joke - I just spent last weekend dining with friends from London and then another meal with New Yorkers. They are all spouting the same 'Save Democracy' drivel. They are uptight and tense - they are possessed. Yes - communism is seeping in...
I remember fondly the good old days in college when we thought only Richard Nixon was an existential threat to freedom of the press. Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee didn’t fire Woodward and Bernstein because John Mitchell threatened them and WaPo over Watergate. She backed her people because she knew that their work was solid and accurate. Today the media not only withholds accurate relevant stories, it helps spread false ones. At least Tass, Pravda and Izvestia were honest about what they were!
This period - if we survive it - is going to be characterized as a horrific capture of sane people - a sickness that had covered the institutions like a virus.
The cementing of the alliance between corporate media, democrats and federal agencies is an existential threat. and where are our journalist hero’s at this time ?
Also the EU leaders. They are allies. When they said they are passing hate speech laws, Democrats decided they will do the same and just lie to us about our First Amendment rights and our country's sovereignty.
Thank you Free Press for publishing her testimony.
She is a brave woman and has gonads to stand up to the federal government. She needs to be a contributor to the Free Press.
I watched her Catherine Herridge at Fox and felt that she always gave "Just the facts ma'm." My intuition told me she also was a journalist that had integrity. Anyway, I'm glad she has support and also that her old employer is footing some of the bill.
Crazy Hair — “refusing to disclose her sources in her investigation into a taxpayer-funded school in Virginia run by a woman with alleged links to the Chinese military.”
I can see why CBS and the Biden Administration might want to deter investigations of this kind. After all, through his disreputable offspring, Pres. Joe Biden has “links to the Chinese military” that are far more than merely “alleged”!
Ovaries
Yes they are the gonads in a women.
Oh. Science.
She is a true patriot who is standing up for all of us. How interesting that the much-maligned Fox News is supporting their former employee while the much-vaunted CBS is not....who is really supporting democratic freedoms?
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the MSM is throwing her under the bus. Those radical left wing loons in the MSM don't want any evidence on the ever senile Joe's crime family.
I, too, was impressed learnng that her former employer supported her.
democratic not to be confused with democrat party of tyrants. Who actually chose candidate Biden? The voters sure didn't. The primary was rigged and it seems the democrats in high office are all pawns of a deep state or a corporate oligarchy. They were instructed not to run and those like Kennedy had to leave the party to have a chance. JFK and Bobby would be shocked to see what has happened to their party.
I'm not sure that rigged is the right word. That word, to me, denotes subterfuge or deceit. joe told his game plan from the beginning. He would fundamentally change this country. It was in the country's face. Translation, the dems will make the new rules by which the power in this country runs roughshod over the citizens ignoring all previous laws, norms and principles as they see fit.
He ran as a moderate Democrat and immediately bowed to his far left base or to his puppeteers. Take your pick.
Yip but the only way to have done this in 2020, was at the ballot box - that was the rig, mail ins and ballot harvesting, Australia outlawed this system at the turn of 20th century, why because they couldn’t control the chain of custody of ballots neither the identification of voters. Notice a similarity to our current system however, NOW is the major problem how to we get these DEMOCROOKS out of power. They won’t go quietly Dan.
I voted for Trump the first time. I was a never democrat or never Republican. I quit voting for a couple of go arounds. I viewed Trump as more of third party type but running as a Republican. Biden has proven that no matter how bad you think someone is, Trump, there's a worse one, biden. I loved Trump's policies but not his posts on X, formerly twitter. The main issue being, I didn't care, but it turned voters off. I believe, since the MSM ignores us, that independents will vote in high numbers for Trump as long as he doesn't screw up with his mouth again, biden really doesn't have a chance. The tough part will be getting biden's left over deep state bureaucrats out of government. They are the ones who run the government. But the simple answer is, cut the budget like Republicans use to do, for every executive branch government and then start letting people go. joe can't weaponize fed's employees from budget cuts. Go Brandon!
What does that have to do with the article?
Indeed, she is a true patriot and , even more rare, a true investigative journalist. If it were not for The Free Press, I'd have thought journalism was dead, replaced by propaganda outlets.
There are other principled journalists at Substack. Matt Taibbi has a long track record, as does Glenn Greenwald over at Rumble.
You forgot Michael Shellenberger. His work is impeccable.
You are correct!
I thought Greenwald was a truth teller until he started spewing hate and lies about Israel and repeating the lies of Hamas. Just goes to show that journalists have their own strong petty prejudices that get in the way of fair and true reporting.
Totally agree. Would love to see some balance, but it's pro-Hamas 100% of the time.
Carol Hasidim — Greenwald’s great flaw is that he is a knee-jerk non-interventionist. So he’s not so good when there’s a strong case for intervention; e.g., when Putin is trying to wipe Ukraine off the map, or Islamic fanatics plan to make the Middle East Judenrein “from the river to the sea”.
Me too, turned me off, done with him.
Greenwald is consistently a contrarian. He is pro-Hamas and anti-israel. However, unlike others with similar views, he sticks to the facts. I respect him even as I disagree with him strenuously.
Not discounting that support, but the story and the sources for it, were developed while Herridge was at Fox. So Fox actually has an interest in the support. Arguably a contractual obligation.
Methinks there is something fishy about CBS and its behavior.
Great point!
Thanks for the obvious Kathleen (FNC v CBS).
I always liked Catherine Herridge and have considered her to be the epitome of investigative journalism. Hope protection of sources remains, she gave great testimony.
Note her shout out to Columbia University School of Journalism. Credit given where credit due.
The tricky thing with anonymous sources is that when they help Democrats they are always spooks and perverts perpetrating a hoax in order to harm Americans.
Catherine Herridge’s sources, on the other hand, are probably very real and need to stay anonymous because otherwise Democrats will send pansexual sociology majors in tactical gear to throw flashbangs into their living rooms.
And then an MSNBC contributor/lawyer will spend the next five years bankrupting them.
This is a regime, folks.
"What made it even more alarming was that her notes and files, which contained information on her sources, were seized by her former employer...She eventually retrieved her personal property, but only after enlisting the help of her union"
And only after the FBI, CIA, DHS... copied them and instituted surveillance on every source. The DOJ will now coerce them into further disclosures or bankrupt them with trumped up lawfare charges until they say or do whatever the Blob wants.
Seems the FBI, CIA and DHS no longer act according to the rules of the Constitution. CBS appears to be working with the government by giving them access to private, protected data. Shame on all of them. If there are any truly, independent investigative reporters besides Catherine Herridge, secure your information where it can’t be seized by your employer and the government has to go through proper procedures to get their hands on it. This could be the end of a free and independent press in the USA and we’ll turn into a Russia or China where we have no true freedom. Our young are being taught that freedom is meaningless and unnecessary. I hope they never have to find out what that means.
That kind of thing would never happen in the United States of America...
The United States of America are not the United States of America, and if you don't think that could happen here, you are either naive or dangerously ignornant.
I'm neither. The story about the two young fish and the old fish: old fish asks "how are liking the water?" The two young fish ask, "what's water?" I'm the old fish.
Good, don't take the bait, it attached to a hook.
We have a weaponized judicial system and the three letter bureaus are even worse. This administration is criminal.
To be repeated - this Administration is a 'totalitarian regime'
Yet their most repeated fear-mongering election narrative is that Republicans will destroy democracy.
Democrats are craven - they're nuts
Wendy — By “democracy” they mean a ballot with only Joe Biden’s name on it. It’s like when East Germany called itself the German Democratic Republic. They wish to make sure we don’t vote for the wrong candidate by mistake.
BIGTIME
Wonder when those pansexual jack-booted thugs will start using glitter bombs instead of flashbangs?
More likely they will be swapped out for the newly-imported MS13 members who will be granted citizenship if they sign up to be trained by the military to assassinate people in red hats.
But I guess the military is 30% transvestites at this point so maybe they will use glitter.
Thankfully, the people in red hats shoot back...
wait, what? is your account for real? what an absurd claim with no data behind it. anonymous sources are not more likely to be real or require anonymity because of us party political affiliation.
They went to the hotel with Trump and they peed on him. There was so much pee omg. Pee was everywhere!!!
You are obviously new to Kevin. Lighten up.
smile, bill! you look prettier that way.
I’m always smiling it is the only way to survive the Biden years
Lizzie, what is your rank in the People's Liberation Army?
He's definitely for real, and occasionally has a very sharp wit. A little heavy on "Democrats eat babies," but a solid voice for sure.
Absolutely Sir!!
Are those pansexual sociology majors really all that dangerous?
They’ll bore you to death with their pronouns and throw tampons at you! 🤣
It’s shocking but not surprising but the assault on the press goes back to the Obama administration and BO3.0 continues with MSM backing these activities. What’s the connection with Catherine Herridge and Uri Berliner’s Mea culpa of NPR bias and lack of viewpoint diversity? It’s definitely not Trump. It’s a strict ideological progressive worldview where the ends justify the means. Wishing brave journalists like Herridge, Atkinson, Shellenberger, Greenwald, Taibbi, Weiss and all their colleagues Godspeed.
Actually, you can trace the assault on the press back to the John Adams Administration – Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The ink was barely dry on the Bill of Rights (1791) when the Adams administration started locking up journalists who were “democratic republicans” supporting Thomas Jefferson. Human nature is and always will be corrupt. The only way out of this mess is to Seriously Downsize the federal government!! Maybe?
We the People are the Heirs of the American Experiment and We are Squandering Our American Inheritance!
No maybe about it. Though I've voted GOP 99% of the time since 1980, I will not forget that it was W that gave us the Patriot Act
Yep, the uniparty has been going on for a while. Live Free or Die!
Nope. We haven't lost the fight and we aren't giving up. That would require the total abdication of the American citizens personal moral responsibility to the Constitution (and themselves) while placing their lives in the hands of fascist traitors who serve international criminal financiers. This would have to be an age when tax dollars went unaccounted for by the billions and disappeared into the numbered accounts of financial oligarchs and the lives, pension funds and labor of American citizens could be taken without fear of consequence by corporate hyenas, who could then destroy the American economy, loot the American treasury, gut American industry, write themselves huge bonus checks and go on vacation. The DNC would never let them get away with it. If that happened billionaire cartels could hold private meetings to plan the destruction of the American Republic and call for the arrest and prosecution of free speech while interfering with American political elections as they funded and placed political operatives inside the American judicial system. It's silly to think that. If that happened American elected political leadership would just openly sell political influence. To pull it off they'd have to weaponize the DOJ to destroy its political opponents and journalists would have to join hands with a criminal bureaucratic surveillance state to turn American reality into a lie. It would be like Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. The sense of unreality would be so great that to protect themselves, citizens would have to engage in endless discussions to convince themselves it wasn't really happening.
Nope. We're not giving up ever!! (We're just a little beat up.)
For those unfamiliar or perhaps forgotten, a concise summary of press intimidation under Obama Admin.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/barack-obamas-war-free-press
Seems to be predominantly the Democrat Party.
The judge who issued the contempt order is an Obama appointee.
Catherine Herridge is an endangered species, a real journalist. She is who Jefferson had in mind when he called for a free and impartial press.
A very different generation of Harvard-grad
It's confusing how no attempts were made to have CNN, MSNBC, The NYT, et.al. divulge their "confidential sources" when they were claiming Trump enlisted Russian collusion to steal an election from Hillary.
Even after the Mueller Report showed those claims were flat out lies, no one looked into these "sources".
I wonder why?
exactly
Remember Schiff has "documented proof" !
Yah. He had documented proof for what, 4 years? Another Democrat asshole.
...from the department of redundancy department!
Schiff is a documented poof. That guy is really slimy. And in California's primary, he was urging people to support Republican Steve "Popeye Forearms" Garvey over fellow Dem Katie Porter in the silly top-2-move on system California has.
Can't imagine CBS doing this to, say, Norah O'Donnell, John Dickerson, Margaret Brennan or any of the "investigative reporters" on 60 Minutes. They are all true to the internal narrative. Catherine was the only true journalist on staff at CBS.
She cut her chops at FOX - was sad to see her go - she did terrific reporting on the military and other international events.
I do like Jennifer Griffin.
Agree but she's more of a reporter, not so much an investigative reporter. I mean Catherine was like a dog after rib-eye bone.
She's also great on the 'military'
FOX foolishly let her walk away.
Couldn’t believe when she decamped to CBS.
Agree. I was looking for her when she disappeared on Fox. She seemed to be a true journalist, rather scarce these days.
...but there was no way I was going to follow her to CBS - CBS also tapped into reporter Sharyl Attkinson's computer - that Herridge trusted them after what they did to Attkinson is mind-boggling....."Attkisson had been frustrated over what she perceived to be the network's liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting"
Great point. I'd forgotten that. Sharyl ought to hire her.
OMG...we are farther along to becoming a communist country than I had imagined. Just like Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong...no citizen is safe from the leftist progressive agenda.
No joke - I just spent last weekend dining with friends from London and then another meal with New Yorkers. They are all spouting the same 'Save Democracy' drivel. They are uptight and tense - they are possessed. Yes - communism is seeping in...
Must have been a really fun dinner!
I remember fondly the good old days in college when we thought only Richard Nixon was an existential threat to freedom of the press. Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee didn’t fire Woodward and Bernstein because John Mitchell threatened them and WaPo over Watergate. She backed her people because she knew that their work was solid and accurate. Today the media not only withholds accurate relevant stories, it helps spread false ones. At least Tass, Pravda and Izvestia were honest about what they were!
This period - if we survive it - is going to be characterized as a horrific capture of sane people - a sickness that had covered the institutions like a virus.
This period is here to stay, this is the next stage for America.
Colleges their starting point.
OBAMA’S INFLUENCE IS EVERYWHERE.
They spied on candidate Trump, destroyed Generals Flynn’s life.
They don’t care about collateral damage!
All rather alarming and creepy
Good on The Free Press!
None better than Catherine Herridge.
I admire her courage, We badly need more journalists willing to uphold the ethics of their profession.
IOW we need more journalists -- full stop. Not certain that the language even has a word for the present roster of wordhash slingers.
What part of "Congress shall make no law...abridging freedom of the press" do they not understand?
She's a hero.
The cementing of the alliance between corporate media, democrats and federal agencies is an existential threat. and where are our journalist hero’s at this time ?
very true, but . . . look!!! It's a Kardashian!!! Hurry!!!!
She's been replaced by Tayor Swift and Bianca Censori.
Elon
Sharyl Atkisson
Catherine Herridge
J. K. Rowling
True, not all journalists, but everyone must speak out!
Also the EU leaders. They are allies. When they said they are passing hate speech laws, Democrats decided they will do the same and just lie to us about our First Amendment rights and our country's sovereignty.