BREAKING: Hillary Clinton, Johm Podesta, Cheryl Mills & others may have WRITTEN an article about Clinton’s Benghazi testimony published by Yahoo News reported as objective journalism.

Wikileaks email: https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/17184

Yahoo News: https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/clinton-face-lawmakers-benghazi-attack-090039480--politics.html

C’td below...

An email exchange between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, John Podesta, Roy Spence & others appears to show evidence that the three may have written an article regarding Clinton’s testimony regarding the Benghazi scandal later published at Yahoo News.

At a minimum, the Wikileaks email exchange shows that the four, along with other State Department employees, were provided with a copy of the article two days prior to it being published for review & editing. Some noteworthy comments appear within the Wikileaks exchange:

Note the date & time stamps from the Wikileaks email exchanges, then compare with the date the story was published at Yahoo News. In the Wikileaks emails, the Clinton advisors engage in conversation about an upcoming story to appear at Yahoo News on Wednesday, January 23, 2013.

On January 21, Mills emailed Podesta & three State Department employees, stating: “For your review comments noting below.”

A minute prior, Mills emailed Daniel Schwerin stating:

“In case you have not yet heard - she really, really likes this draft and is quite happy with it.”

Roughly three hours later, John Podesta wrote back, stating the following:

“One last point. By wednesday, treatment of Algeria might seem too thin. Might need to add a little more heft to that section.”

This is where it gets interesting. At the top of the Wikileaks exchange...

C’td: ... A draft or copy of the Yahoo story is emailed in full to Secretary Clinton, who asks that it be printed.

That copy or draft has one critical difference from the version published by Yahoo. The references to Algeria are entirely different between the two versions.

Observe the remarks involving Algeria by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) are not present in the version of the story published by Yahoo. These remarks are highlighted in the first image in the previous tweet.

In the actual Yahoo story published two days following the Wikileaks email exchanges, references to Algeria do appear, however in a tone far less critical of Secretary Clinton, with Rep. Royce’s comments removed from the article entirely, apparently at John Podesta’s discretion.

Upon view of the contents, changes to contents, dates/times & wording used w regard to the story, it appears there are one of two possibilities: 1) Yahoo gave total control of the actual writing of the article to Ms. Mills and/or other names involved, just signing off; or...

2) Yahoo had a writer work w Mills and/others working on Clinton’s behalf, allowing her/them the authority to edit as was seen fit, as well as withhold from publishing until Clinton’s team had approved a final draft.

Fact: John Podesta suggests “adding a little more heft to...

... that section,” and that “by Wednesday, treatment of Algeria might be too thin.”

The Clinton team was provided with a (near final) draft two days later on January 23. That draft contained a passage about Algeria followed by thinly veiled criticism of Secretary. Clinton by...

... Republican Congresman Ed Royce.

In the version of the story actually published by Yahoo News, those paragraphs were replaced by unrelated content involving Algeria in the form of quotes that were attributed to Mrs. Clinton. These quotes were in no way critical of herself.

Regardless of who wrote the filler content, this is an affront to journalism. This is an excellent example of why not one news source in the “mainstream” American press is credible at present. Mrs. Clinton never should have been shown a copy of the final draft, much less make...

... changes to it. A journalist would never have allowed either to happen. The extent of her role in the story should have been limited to providing answers to the questions asked by the reporter.

This is what fake news looks like. This is why the media is an enemy of the state.

For reference:

- https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/17184

- https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/clinton-face-lawmakers-benghazi-attack-090039480--politics.html

Yahoo was got caught red handed letting a Democrat write and/or selectively edit a “news” story it claimed to be objective, unbiased journalism. This is the anatomy of fake news.

2020 Fat Lester

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