Those of us on the Right sure do have it wrong, don’t we? All that, “The Democrats are pushing a whole new Stalinism on our nation” is patently false, huh?
I mean, it’s not as if the Jackass Party is trying to put their number one challenger for the White House behind bars, right? No… wait.
In the meantime, US District Judge Christopher Cooper (who was nominated by Barack Obama) has just slammed CBS News (and ex-FNC) investigative reporter, Catherine Herridge, in civil contempt for refusing to reveal a confidential source.
And not just any source. As reported, Herridge’s confidential source leaked info on “a Chinese scientist working at an American university who was under FBI criminal investigation.”
As Judge Cooper ruled, Herridge will be fined $800 per day. That’s nearly $300,000 per year.
Heaven’s to Murgatroyd, it’s not as if the Dems try to utterly and totally destroy anyone who gets in their way, right?
As reported by Ryan Saavedra of the DailyWire.com;
A federal judge tapped by former President Barack Obama ruled on Thursday to hold veteran investigative journalist Catherine Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to reveal who her source was for a series of reports about a Chinese scientist working at an American university who was under FBI criminal investigation.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper imposed a fine of $800 per day — nearly $300,000 per year — until Herridge reveals who her source was for the stories that she wrote while at Fox News.
“Herridge and many of her colleagues in the journalism community may disagree with that decision and prefer that a different balance be struck, but she is not permitted to flout a federal court’s order with impunity,” Cooper wrote.
Cooper said that Herridge, who is widely respected for being impartial and pursuing stories that many in the mainstream media ignore, must reveal how she learned about the federal investigation, which centered around learning whether the Chinese scientist lied about her military service and if her school’s student database could be accessed by the Chinese.