Even as news broke late last week that the government believes a bona fide criminal probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server is, at last, in order, The New York Times – one of the first to report on the topic – began revising its story to make Hillary appear somehow unconnected with the whole affair.
After originally reporting that two inspectors general had concluded Clinton’s handling of the private server – both while Secretary of State and afterward – warrants a criminal investigation, the Times massaged the language in its published story to make Hillary’s role appear much more passive and benign.
“The paper initially reported that two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation ‘into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state,’” POLITICO’s Dylan Byers wrote Friday.
“That clause, which cast Clinton as the target of the potential criminal probe, was later changed: the inspectors general now were asking for an inquiry ‘into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state.’”
In the original, then, Clinton was an active agent – and the Times used the active voice.
In the rewrite, the Times switched to the passive voice, and Clinton becomes almost a hoodwinked victim; an outside observer. No mastermind, she; Hillary instead comes off as one who distantly glimpses all the other people who might be criminally responsible for secreting State Department info on a private server and compromising security – both of a technical and strategic nature.
Despite claiming in March that she had never used the private account to send or receive classified information, the inspectors general found that the former Secretary had, in fact, exchanged ‘hundreds of potentially classified emails,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
In addition, POLITICO noted, the Times changed its original headline (and the relevant portion of its accompanying web link) from “Criminal Inquiry Sought in Hillary Clinton’s Use of Email” to “Criminal Inquiry Is Sought in Clinton Email Account.” No need to keep mentioning, then, that she actually used this account.
The Times did not acknowledge any of these changes to its readership.
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