Are you disputing the increasing # of people repor

Are you disputing the increasing # of people reported to have been in that meeting? Do you consider that to be fake news?

I count myself among the % of people educated well enough and diligent enough to be able to distinguish fact from fiction.

I also know the difference between making a mistake and willful, careless misreporting. I see a LOT of examples on Fox News.

It's a virtual grad school for that kind of shit!

For instance, there are fake news sites that actually identify themselves as satire or parody sites. All you have to do is scan down or click 'about us' to learn that.

Those inclined to believe nonsense are generally not too curious if the fake news reinforces what they believe. Or worse, they do as I described and simply ignore the disclaimer. Happened a lot during the campaign.

I knew as soon as I read a reference to the firing of the FBI Director by Clinton that you misrepresented the coverage. It was widely covered. The reason. Scandal. And you used the linkage from the mere timing of the firing to V. Foster's suicide to posit a conspiracy theory, for which their is no evidence.

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http://www.snopes.com/clinton-fbi-director-vince-foster/

CLAIM

President Bill Clinton firing of FBI Director William Sessions was linked to Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster's death a day later.

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WHAT'S TRUE

President Clinton fired FBI Director William Sessions on 19 July 1993, one day before Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, a longtime associate of the Clintons, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

WHAT'S FALSE

There is nothing inherently suspicious about the coincidental timing of Sessions's firing and Vince Foster's death (which was determined to be a suicide).


The Firing of William Sessions

William Sessions, who had experience as both a practicing attorney and U.S. District Judge, was nominated as FBI Director by President Ronald Reagan and sworn in on 2 November 1987. After serving under both Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Sessions was still in the post at the time of Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, but was beset by accusations of ethical improprieties. These were laid out in a report by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, as follows by the New York Times reported at the time:


The report found that Mr. Sessions had taken numerous free trips aboard F.B.I. aircraft to visits friends and relatives, often taking along his wife, Alice. The report, which was endorsed officially by Attorney General William P. Barr on his last day in office, detailed a litany of abuses. It is a lacerating portrayal of the Director as an official who was in charge of enforcing the law but who seemed blase about perceptions of his own conduct.

At the behest of Attorney General Janet Reno, who advised the president that Director Sessions could no longer lead the agency effectively in the wake of the accusations, Clinton asked for his resignation, which Sessions, who denied any wrongdoing, refused to turn over. After a six-month stalemate during which morale at the FBI hit a “new low,” according to the New York Times, President Clinton summarily dismissed Sessions on 19 July 1993.

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