‘60 Minutes’ Enables FBI Dysfunction

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‘60 Minutes’ Enables FBI Dysfunction

CBS News’ Scott Pelley, like so much of the legacy media, helped FBI Director Christopher Wray sell lies to the American public.

By Adam Mill
April 28, 2022

Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” didn’t tell his viewers whether FBI Director Christopher Wray imposed conditions before agreeing to be interviewed on camera by CBS. But his slobbering pro-FBI questions, which aired Sunday, had the feel of something Wray’s communication director may have fed the “news” program. The selection of topics seemed geared towards rehabilitating the FBI’s public image as a law enforcement agency.

Pelley wasn’t educating the public. He was second banana on the production of an infomercial for the FBI. Instead of pressing the FBI director to answer critical questions about the bureau’s many lapses and scandals, Pelley puffed-up the FBI’s made-for-television image that so starkly contrasts with its incompetence, corruption, and politicization. Pelley disgraced himself as a journalist by protecting one of the most powerful men in America from accounting for his agency’s many misdeeds.

It’s What Pelley Didn’t Ask
Under Wray, the FBI has disgraced itself with misconduct and abuse of power. In the days leading up to the interview, victims of serial child molestor and Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sued the FBI for $130 million after agents charged with investigating the abuse instead covered it up by fabricating victim statements. Pelly failed to ask Wray a single question about the scandal.

Pelley also failed to ask Wray about the humiliating acquittal of two men the FBI attempted to entrap into the Governor Gretchen Whitmer plot engineered by the FBI to interfere in the 2020 election. Among the FBI agents involved, one was accused of perjury, another of wife beating (now convicted), and a third of using the investigation to help promote a side-business.

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The FBI Is Trying to Share the Ukraine Spotlight
Pelley begins his interview complimenting the FBI for “going on a war footing” to help fend off cyber attacks against Ukraine. Wray smiles approvingly at Pelley’s delivery of a question that sounds like it was planted by the FBI. Obviously, Wray’s well-lubricated political weathervane that guides bureau policy has now aligned with the winds blowing from Ukraine.

But a real journalist would have asked, “What?! What is the FBI doing in Ukraine?” 

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Source:  https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/28/60-minutes-enables-fbi-dysfunction/