Deceit in support of deception

On Monday I posted They are still scrabbling around the monkey cage hurling feces commenting on the mainstream media's failure to address their tarnished reputation post-Mueller Report.

As part of that post, I had a number of screen captures of the New York Times' front page, one of which shows an editorial, Trump’s Shamelessness Was Outside Mueller’s Jurisdiction by Bob Bauer.

Powerline reinforces my argument in Less Than Full Disclosure from the New York Times by Paul Mirengoff by pointing out something I did not recall.

Look at the author of the NYT opinion. Bob Bauer - Ring any bells? It did not for me until it was pointed out.

What’s notable about the article is how the New York Times identifies Bauer. The Times states:

Mr. Bauer is a professor of practice and distinguished scholar in residence at New York University School of Law.

That’s true as far as it goes. But for purposes of an op-ed about the Mueller investigation of alleged collusion with Russia, it doesn’t go very far.

Mirengoff has that right. It does not go near far enough.

Until May 2018, Bauer was a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm. Moreover, when Bauer left the firm, it announced that he “will maintain his representation of a number of key clients in an individual, solo capacity and will co-counsel with Perkins Coie on a number of those representations.”

At Perkins Coie, Bauer headed the firm’s “political law practice” — the largest in the country. It became the go-to practice for prominent Democrats trying to use lawyers to win elections.

During the 2016 presidential race, Perkins Coie served as the private lawyers for the Democratic National Committee. According to The Hill, both the DNC and the Clinton campaign used Perkins Coie secretly to pay Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the presidential election.

Fake intelligence in that dossier was then used by the FBI as the main basis for seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant targeting the Trump campaign in the final days of the campaign. After the election, the dossier continued to be used by those pushing claims of collusion.

This op-ed was written by the partner in the law firm which was integral to the development and pushing of the Steele dossier as the basis for the claim of collusion and therefore the genesis of the Mueller investigation.

This is the Mandarin Class news channel (NYT) providing space for a key Mandarin Class agent responsible for ginning up the false collusion charge to substantiate a use of Federal resources for a partisan investigation by partisan deep state sympathizers against a duly elected President.

Without mentioning any of that background. That would be like giving Bernie Madoff space to argue the benefits of Ponzi Schemes without mentioning his history or conviction.

"Double down on fake news" or "Work hard to redeem our reputation as a reliable news source" - it appears that the NYT is still inclined towards the wrong answer.