In what is now a clear and unmistakable pattern, the legacy evening newscasts have suppressed any mention of the latest release of formerly classified documents related to the Russia Hoax by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The latest release exposes a media favorite.
Per Just the News:
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday declassified an email exchange between then-DNI James Clapper and then-National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers, who expressed concerns over the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment used in the Russiagate scandal.
The former NSA director's concerns were expressed to Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.
Clapper acknowledged the concerns in response but said the intelligence community may need to "compromise on our ‘normal’ modalities” because “more time is not negotiable.”
These are explosive allegations, backed by more than enough evidence than is usually the basis of political reporting on the legacy nightly news. And yet, not a single newscast among ABC, CBS, NBC carried the story. And there’s really no excuse. If this is a case of producers not wanting to attribute any reporting to any outlet outside of the legacy media cool kids’ club, they could’ve simply cited the Director of National Intelligence herself:
????Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama's order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a "team… pic.twitter.com/fVHq9E1no7
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) August 13, 2025
The network evening news is fine running unsourced stories, or speculative hoaxes (see: Russia, Bloodbath, Elon Nazi Salute, et. al) if their intended targets do not hew to progressive orthodoxies. But when the shoe is on the other foot? Well, silly kids, that’s just (D)ifferent.
ABC World News Tonight simply had no time to spare after devoting six-plus minutes at the top of the newscast to weather, and to the unruly airline passenger du jour. The CBS Evening News reported on Florida calling a bear hunting season, and closed out with a TWO-MINUTE story on a harmonica festival in Idaho. Firmly in its Tom Llamas Era, the NBC Nightly News aired items whining about President Donald Trump hosting the Kennedy Center Honors and, respectively, about babies on the carnivore diet.
The morning shows were no better. In addition to their obligatory Taylor Swift segments: ABC’s Good Morning America did a follow-up segment on the kid pilot stuck in Chilean Antarctica and trying to fly back. CBS Mornings ran segments on the viral video of the Long Island paddleboarder surrounded by sharks, and NBC’s Today featured a discussion on Leonardo di Caprio’s Esquire interview. There was simply no time, don’t you see.
Univision and Telemundo, now devoting the bulk of their time to immigration advocacy on all their news programming, made no time to air this document release, either.
In a sense, and while maddening, the media’s desire to suppress THIS particular and still-ongoing story is almost understandable, and echoes former Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper’s rationale for pressing forward with the cooked intelligence: “That’s OUR story, and we’re stickin’ to it.” Our own Tim Graham puts it another way: The networks like the story line they built, and don’t want to take it apart.