Once again, the truth has forced the once-respected CBS news division to its knees.

The network has admitted Face the Nation’s dropping more than 20 percent of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s interview was wrong, and that henceforth it will not do so. Noem was discussing Salvadoran illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wife-beating, MS-13 terror-gang member now under indictment for smuggling illegal aliens into the country. The program lopped out Noem’s rendition of Garcia’s record.

The editing was suspicious because the hate-Trump media have repeatedly described Garcia as a put-upon “Maryland husband and father” who was “wrongly deported” before returning to the United States to face trial for human smuggling. As well, the Salvadoran gangbanger has more fangirls in the Democratic Party than Taylor Swift. They also push the pro-Garcia narrative.

CBS’s surrender comes after it paid millions to help set up the Trump presidential library after it edited a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris so she wouldn’t come off like an empty-headed boob. The chop job is yet another example of CBS’s far-left bias.

More trouble began for the network when DHS reported that Noem’s remarks had been hacked to pieces.

Asked about prosecuting Garcia, Noem replied thusly:

Well, prosecution decisions are always made by the Department of Justice and in Pam Bondi’s department, so we will let them do that. Although this individual does have criminal charges pending. He has charges pending against him civilly as well, and the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn’t walk free in the United States of America. This individual was a known human smuggler, an MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors, and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off, he was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children. So he needs to never be in the United States of America, and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice.

Face the Nation’s censors went to work. They cut off her remarks when she said “he doesn’t walk free in the United States of America.” That dropped her remarks about the crimes Garcia has committed and has been indicted for committing.

On the same day, DHS noted that editors hacked the interview to pieces. Noem’s remarks appeared in the transcript in full.

The lie by omission quickly went viral, and today, as The Hill reported, the network surrendered.

“On Friday, the network issued a new statement in response to ‘audience feedback over the past week,’ announcing the company will ‘implement a new policy for greater transparency in our interviews,’” the website reported:

“FACE THE NATION will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews (subject to national security or legal restrictions),” the broadcaster said. “This extra measure means the television audience will see the full, unedited interview on CBS and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online.”

“Audience feedback” was more likely “attorney feedback,” given the bruising penalty CBS paid in the Harris scandal. That mistake invited the $10 million lawsuit from Trump that ended with the $16 million settlement that will help the Trump library.

Who put the editing shears to Noem’s remarks is unclear. But the executive editor of Face the Nation is ultimately responsible. That individual, Mary Hager, also “played a key role in the preparation of presidential debate moderators, including the only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle between Vice President J.D. Vance and Gov. Tim Walz moderated by Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell,” her biography at the CBS website brags.

During that debate, Vance had to correct Brennan, who “fact-checked” Vance when he said Haitian illegals were wrecking Springfield, Ohio.

“Just to clarify for our viewers,” Brennan said, “Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary protected status.”

“The rules were that you guys were [not] going to fact-check, and since you’re fact-checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on,” Vance said:

So there’s an application called the CBP One app where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole, and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open-border wand. That is not a person coming in, applying for a green card, and waiting for 10 years.… That is the facilitation of illegal immigration, Margaret, by our own leadership. And Kamala Harris opened up that pathway.

When Walz suggested that the CBP One app was created decades ago, Vance corrected that. CBS then shut down the candidates’ microphones.

CBS News has had a strained relationship with the truth for years. 

In 2004, led by veteran anchorman Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes, 60 Minutes II falsely claimed that President George W. Bush received favorable treatment in the National Guard in the 1960s. They based their claims on documents that internet sleuths proved to be fabricated minutes after the story went public.

CBS fired Mapes, who refused to confess that the documents were fraudulent. Rather departed the network two years later.

“CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report,” CBS News President Andrew Heyward confessed:

We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.

And now, apparently, the network has confessed that editing interviews to fit an agenda isn’t such a good idea either.