Guest Post by SM Gibson
(ANTIMEDIA) State Department emails published by Gawker on Tuesday show that a CNN journalist colluded with a top Hillary Clinton State Department aide in an attempt to smear Kentucky Senator Rand Paul during the former secretary of state’s 2013 testimony on the Benghazi attacks.
Elise Labott, a foreign affairs reporter for CNN, is now serving a two-week suspension from the Atlanta-based global news network for posting a critical tweet of Senator Paul during the hearing. She apparently did so at the directive of Clinton aide Philippe Reines. The social media post chided Senator Paul for asking Clinton difficult questions throughout the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Labott also coordinated with Reines to tweet a favorable quote from Clinton’s testimony.
In what appeared to be a follow-up question to a prior conversation, the CNN reporter asked Reines via email, “are you sure rand paul wasn’t at any hearings?”
Just minutes after hitting send, Labott fired back with another message informing the aide of what she had just posted to her official Twitter account:
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