Notably, Fox chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has amplified posts about the CNN and Post articles but has yet to report on the story in her own right.
When the story of Hegseth’s Signal texts broke in March, she reported that her sources had told her the information in them was “clearly classified” and that sharing it in an unclassified setting “would be considered a breach in national security.” Last month, Hegseth harshly criticized her reporting on the U.S. military strikes on Iran during a press conference.
Fox’s propagandists have ignored, downplayed, and excused a string of damning reports about their former colleague’s leadership of the Defense Department. Fox host Sean Hannity, for example, told viewers in March that the Signal story was unimportant because “there was no classified material revealed in those texts.”
The right-wing propaganda network’s stars have a long record of pretending to care about the security of classified information when the officials accused of mishandling it were Democrats (for his part, in the waning days of the 2016 election, Baier erroneously reported that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was on the verge of indictment over her use of a private email server as secretary of state).
Now, however, Fox seems committed to burying the story that one of the network’s former hosts shared classified information as a member of the Trump administration.
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