In response to being exposed for having buried the Epstein story, ABC News has shown more interest in “hunting down” and punishing the employee or employees who helped expose them than in covering deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s well-documented abuses.
“We take violations of company policy very seriously, and we’re pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak,” a network spokesperson confirmed to journalist Yashar Ali on Wednesday.
At the time of the confirmation, the network’s executives reportedly knew “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,” according to Ali.
However, they weren’t certain whether this employee was the same one responsible for then funneling that since-viral footage to Project Veritas, the watchdog group that published the footage to YouTube early Tuesday morning.
“What ABC News executives do know is that the former employee is now working at CBS News,” Ali reported. “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.”
1. Scoop: ABC News execs believe they know who the former employee is who accessed footage of @arobach expressing her frustrations about her shelved Jeffrey Epstein story
That former employee is now at CBS and ABC execs have reached out to CBS News execshttps://t.co/OHEoyahppY
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) November 6, 2019
2. In a statement, an ABC News spokesperson tells me: “We take violations of company policy very seriously, and we’re pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak.”https://t.co/OHEoyahppY
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) November 6, 2019
3. It’s important to note that ABC News does not know if this former employee leaked the footage to Project Veritas. What they do know is who accessed the footage. It’s possible that person could have shared it with others who leaked it. https://t.co/OHEoyahppY
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) November 6, 2019
4. As I noted in this thread, ABC News has confirmed they’re conducting an investigation into the leak.
In response to an email, CBS News says they’re declining to comment for this story. https://t.co/OHEoyahppY
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) November 6, 2019
As of Thursday morning, the CBS staffer has reportedly been fired:
5. Update: Two sources familiar with the matter tell me that CBS News has fired the staffer in question. This comes after ABC informed CBS that they had determined who accessed the footage of Amy Robach expressing her frustrations about the Epstein story. https://t.co/OHEoyahppY
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) November 7, 2019
Ali’s original report was published a day after Project Veritas released undercover video footage that showed “20/20” co-anchor and “Good Morning America” fill-in anchor Amy Robach expressing outrage at having lost out on the Epstein scoop.
“I’ve had the story for three years,” she said. “I’ve had this interview with Virginia Roberts (Giuffre). We would not put it on the air. I was told, ‘Who’s Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.’”
Giuffre is the most famous of Epstein’s alleged victims/sex slaves.
“Then the [British] Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will that we quashed the story,” Robach continued.
According to Giuffre, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is among a slew of wealthy individuals whom she was forced to have sex with as an underage sex slave.
The ABC News correspondent continued by again reiterating that she knew all of this “new” information for years but was blocked by the network from sharing it.
Watch the full footage below:
After the footage emerged, ABC News ran no reports on Epstein — instead it issued a widely panned defense in the form of a statement from Robach in which she tried to disavow everything she’d been captured on video camera saying …
The response from ABC News — in addition to the firing of the unnamed CNN staffer — has stunned critics of the media who feel as if their every complaint about the mainstream media’s deceitfulness and obfuscation has just been proven true to a T.
Like Alex Griswold of the Washington Free Beacon noted from his Twitter account: “ABC News [is] showing more initiative in hunting down the guy who leaked that they killed their billionaire pedophile piece than they did in covering the actual billionaire pedophile.”
And that honestly seems very, very, very telling:
ABC News showing more initiative in hunting down the guy who leaked that they killed their billionaire pedophile piece than they did in covering the actual billionaire pedophile https://t.co/GENR01m7Os
— RIP Beto (@HashtagGriswold) November 6, 2019
CBS fired one of its own people for doing journalism on ABC.
Says it all really. https://t.co/JHEhWwGPCV
— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) November 7, 2019
Some whistleblowers (like those who reveal a years-long corporate cover-up of a notorious pedophile) are less equal than others. https://t.co/Mrgiwgnatz
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 7, 2019
If you work for these News companies and dare speak truth to power they will fire you ass faster than you can say
“protect the bottom line at all costs even if it means allowing the most prolific pedophile the world has ever known to walk free” https://t.co/31joI5CYp1
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) November 7, 2019
From @yashar‘s newsletter, ABC News is going after the possible leaker of the Robach vid. Because, priorities are going after leaker first, notorious pedophile not even on the list. pic.twitter.com/k1QPzHWgaQ
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) November 6, 2019
ABC News spokesperson tells Yashar Ali: “We take violations of company policy very seriously, and we’re pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak.”
ABC News, which let Epstein skate, targeting @Project_Veritas whistleblowers.https://t.co/U9yAIipSCr
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 6, 2019
Looks like two media outlets conspired to retaliate against a whistleblower. Meanwhile, they’re claiming Resistance talking point that merely identifying Ukraine leaker — even though he’s protected from retaliation— is unacceptable. Interesting. https://t.co/WqQgMRLbA6
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 7, 2019
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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