Show Notes
Peter and Eric Talk GAI History, Push Back on a Couple of Recent NYT Articles.
In the wake of not one but two New York Times articles targeting the Government Accountability Institute, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers take the opportunity to set the record straight regarding how they work with sources and government officials.
“We’re going to have a very different conversation today than we usually have,” Schweizer says. “And this is a result of The New York Times running a series of articles exposing the fact —that’s the term they would use —that GAI talks to, and has conversations with, the FBI. We’re gonna go through and give the audience a history that takes you from the 2015 Clinton Foundation investigations through the current Biden investigations.”
Peter and Eric cover GAI history, from NYT bestseller Clinton Cash up through today’s current Biden investigations —highlighting how little The New York Times understands about how the Government Accountability Institute works.
“They ran a couple of stories that talked about the fact that the FBI reached out to us involving the Clinton Foundation investigation in 2015 that launched four probes into the Clinton Foundation,” Schweizer says. “The New York Times also exposed that the FBI had reached out to us as part of the Hunter Biden investigation.”
“We just thought it was unfair —and to be honest, intentionally misleading because they attempted to [make it sound like] we’re selling [the FBI] stuff to try to make Hunter Biden look bad when the opposite is true,” Eggers says later in the podcast.
Schweizer stresses that, as an investigative journalist, you want as many people to have the facts as possible; “we’re happy to share [the facts] because our mission is not only to tell the world what we found, but hopefully we want some justice on the tail end.”
Schweizer and Eggers dig into how outlets like The New York Times are used by the intelligence community.
“Think about the Steele Dossier and the way in which the mainstream media outlets were used by the Clinton campaign by leveraging the credibility of the intelligence community to say ‘here’s this story, here’s what we have.’ And they reported it breathlessly,” Schweizer says.
“The New York Times and mainstream media is still being used by the intelligence community,” Eggers says. “You would think that elements like The New York Times would realize how they’re being used in this manner, but apparently they don’t.”
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