How Democrat Activists Conned The Country By Pretending To Be ‘Journalists’

n Oct. 14, MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had secretly traveled to Russia for meetings with the Russian security service, the FSB. The sensational story was attributed to two anonymous sources and immediately suggested that the FBI director was involved in some sinister dealings with Moscow.

There was just one problem. Patel was in Virginia, attending an event at Liberty University. Within hours, Dilanian was forced to retract his report.

What makes this episode particularly revealing is Dilanian’s history. In 2014, The Intercept exposed emails showing that Dilanian, then at the Los Angeles Times, had routinely submitted drafts of his articles to CIA officials for review before publication, even making changes based on their feedback. In one exchange, he sent a revised draft to his CIA contacts asking, “Does this look better?”

At what point does it become absurd to keep treating people like this as journalists?

There is an entire world operating behind the headlines that most Americans know almost nothing about. A world in which political operatives, intelligence officials, and the media work together in an interconnected system that manufactures scandals, destroys reputations, and unleashes the power of government against political opponents.

Russiagate exposed this world, yet 10 years later, conservatives still talk about media bias, as though the problem were simply journalists who dislike Donald Trump.