Rachel Maddow MSNBC Caught In Latest Fake News Scandal; Proof Her “Forged NSA Document” Segment Was A Hoax

• Rachel Maddow Caught In Latest Fake News Scandal; Proof Her “Forged NSA Document” Segment Was A Hoax
  by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com
  She thought she had it.  The smoking gun that would prove someone in Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election.  But, when a forged NSA document sent to Rachel Maddow turned out to be just more bad information from more anonymous sources, it left the crusading MSNBC host feeling a bit “triggered.”  As such, she opened her show last night with the following segment: (top of post)
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  “Somebody, for some reason, appears to be shopping a fairly convincing fake NSA document that purports to directly implicate somebody from the Trump campaign in working with the Russians in their attack in the election.”
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  “This is news, because: why is someone shopping a forged document of this kind to news organizations covering the Trump-Russia affair?”
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  Not surprisingly, Maddow uses the discovery to imply that someone within the Trump administration is intentionally planting fake information in an attempt to discredit her show.  She goes on to imply that similar efforts may have caused the recent firing of 3 ‘journalists’ at CNN who simply couldn’t be bothered with verifying the anonymous tip they received. Here are more details of Maddow’s show from the Daily Caller: 
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  On June 7, an unidentified person sent documents to an online tip line for Maddow’s show, she said. That was two days after The Intercept published legitimate NSA documents that were stolen by Reality Winner, a contractor for the agency.
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  And that’s where Maddow’s faux-outrage breaks down. 
  You see, if it’s clear that Maddow received her forgery after the intercept published their documents then there’s really no ‘there’ there.  Pretty much anyone with an internet connection could have simply taken the Reality Winner documents from The Intercept website and used them create a forgery to send to Maddow.
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  Of course, Maddow knew that her whole story was bullshit unless she could convince her viewers that the forgery she received was created before The Intercept published it for the world to see.  If she could prove that, then she could insist the forged document must have come from someone on the ‘inside.’
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  So, she decided to get ‘technical’ and take a look at the “metadata” on the document she received.  As it turns out, the “creation date” on the document she received was roughly 3.5 hours before The Intercept published their Reality Winner story.  See, it’s all laid out right here on this lovely timeline graphic.  Checkmate, Mr. Trump!
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  Except, not.  Ironically, by stretching the truth in an attempt to prove that her story was in any way relevant, Maddow unwittingly proved exactly the opposite.
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  As The Intercept has subsequently pointed out, the “creation date” on the document received by Maddow (see the timeline above) perfectly matches, to the exact second, the “creation date” on The Intercept’s Reality Winner document. 
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