When ABC News had the chance to do real investigative journalism about Jeffrey Epstein, his connections to the Clintons, and his terrifying “orgy Island,” they chose not to. As Amy Robach says in the now-infamous Project Veritas tape, they ‘had it all,’ but refused to run it. They’ve offered some extremely weak statements about why they spiked the story, but a quick spin around Twitter will reveal that no one is really buying their explanations.
It’s impossible to say how many victims might have been spared – how many children might not have been raped by a billionaire pedophile – if they’d done the right thing three years ago.
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Fortunately, they’re doing some investigating as we speak. No, they’re still not running the interview and pictures that Robach claims to have had. Instead, they’re digging into an even more important mystery: Who violated company policy by leaking that video?
As Yashar Ali writes on his blog…
ABC News executives believe they know the identity of the former employee who accessed footage of anchor Amy Robach expressing frustration that her story about convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had been shelved.
Two sources with knowledge of the situation tell me that ABC News executives know who the former employee is but don’t know if that person leaked the footage to Project Veritas, the right-wing activist group, or if they shared it with others who leaked the footage.
What ABC News executives do know is that the former employee is now working at CBS News, the sources said. I’m told that ABC News executives have informed their counterparts at CBS News that this person accessed the footage of Robach. It’s unclear if CBS News plans on taking any action against the employee.
In a statement, a spokesperson for ABC News told me, “We take violations of company policy very seriously, and we’re pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak.”
Good to know what ABC News takes “very seriously,” isn’t it?
The network didn’t take the Epstein story seriously enough, but company policy… That’s the stuff that matters!
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By the way, according to James O’Keefe, his source is still inside ABC News. That may fly in the face of Yashar Ali’s report, or it may not. As Ali says, the person who accessed the tape may not be the one who handed it off.
Here’s the clip, one more time:
