Wait... So a judge DID NOT say Hillary Clinton violated email policy?

[Doingto]

Hold on.
Is Gene Lyons saying that the news report that a judge recently said Hillary Clinton violated email policy was not a quote, but allegation by two anonymous sources regarding what they said the judge said?

Did we get duped by the New York Times again?

Did you get duped?

Fast forward to another Schmidt opus that moved on the wire at 3:36 AM on the night of August 21. I read it in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette under the headline: “Judge: Clinton Didn’t Heed Email Policies.”

Datelined “Washington,” the story claimed thatU.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan “said of Hillary Clinton’s email use that ‘we wouldn’t be here today if the employee had followed government policy,’ according to two people who attended the hearing.”

Two anonymous sources, that is.

The article quoted Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a right-wing group suing the State Department for access to Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s private emails, chastising Hillary. It didn’t stipulate how the former Secretary, not a party to the lawsuit, came to be mentioned. Schmidt added that Judge Sullivan was appointed by President Bill Clinton — although a glance at Wikipedia shows that he was initially a Reagan protégé later promoted by George H.W. Bush

http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-media-chase-hillary-time-and-times-again/

Media critic Bob Somerby has more on the New York Times' ongoing war of lies against the Clinton's. http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2015/08/supplemental-back-inside-i-claudius-scam.html

[leftofcool]

1. Bingo!

[Doingto]

2. Many here swallowed the anonymous claim

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251533988

[pnwmom]

3. Yes. Which was obvious because it isn't that judge's job to decide whether she's following

State Department policy.

If the judge said anything to someone, he wasn't saying it as an official position. A judge can have private opinions, just like anyone else. And that's all this was.

No one including this judge has ever said Hillary broke any law. And that's what would get a judge involved.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Well,it worked for the Right Wing

Conspiracy,and you now understand how bogus story after bogus story is reprinted as fact. Drudge gets away with this shit on a daily basis with the help of Limp Nuts and CNN as well Fake Noise.

[Gothmog]

5. No, the judge did not make this statement

[SidDithers]

6. DU rec...nt

Sid