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Senate witness exchange over protecting confidentiality of lying sources to journalists

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson asks investigative journalist Lee Smith at a hearing on congressional oversight and news media coverage of the FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation that an inquiring press with access to sources not trust Congress to keep their identities secure and confidential commerce resources went to the press which found out about stuff a lot sooner than Congress or Justice Department officials, he supporting a free press and any member protecting confidentiality of sources giving true information, if there is an obligation to protect the source giving false information, Smith saying it differently as an actual partnership between the press and the people providing false information to prosecutor campaign against the Trump administration.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson asks investigative journalist Lee Smith at a hearing on congressional oversight and news media coverage of the FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation that an inquiring press with access to sources not trust Congress to keep their identities secure and confidential commerce resources went to the press which found out about stuff a lot sooner than Congress or Justice Department officials, he supporting a free press and any member protecting confidentiality of sources giving true information, if there is an obligation to protect the source giving false information, Smith saying it differently as an actual partnership between the press and the people providing false information to prosecutor campaign against the Trump administration.
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December 03, 2020
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