Biden Campaign Responds to NSA ‘Unmasking’ List by Personally Attacking Journalist

Wednesday was the Oscars of political breaking news. Veteran journalist and reporter Catherine Herridge tweeted a declassified “unmasking list” from the NSA.

The list included former Vice President Joseph Biden who was amongst the people who had requested the unmasking of Michael Flynn’s name. Not only did Biden and the others on the list make such a request, but the timing is critical; all requests came between election day when Trump beat Hillary Clinton, and Trump’s inauguration. Coincidence?

Within hours of Herridge’s tweet revealing the list with the caption, “SCOOP @CBSNews obtains @RichardGrenell notification to congress declassified ‘unmasking list’ Flynn between late 2016 and January 2017 – Read 3 pages provided by NSA here.”

Naturally, a response from the Biden campaign was expected, but this got personal. Biden’s “rapid response director” Andrew Bates, instead of acknowledging the bombshell breaking news about his boss, decided to attack Herridge. Bates tweeted, “SCOOP: Catherine Herridge is a partisan, rightwing hack who is a regular conduit for conservative media manipulation ploys because she agrees to publicize things before contacting the target to ask for comment.”

We certainly are curious about what the said “target” would comment. Perhaps Biden will give one shortly instead of ignoring the story for months such as he did with Tara Reade, or continue to have his staff declare published information is lying. Or, the best we might get is the new thing to do; attack the journalist who released the intel.