This is what happens when a bunch of journalist hacks with low ratings put the story before the privacy of our dead ambassador Chris Stevens. When this poor excuse for a news network found Stevens personal diary, rather than hand it over to his family or to US investigators, they decided to thumb through it and use that information to build a story. They basically invaded this dead man's privacy against the will of his family... just to prop themselves up and look relevant for the first time since the Gulf War (my opinion). And where is the media outrage on this one? Sure you'll see the story here and there, but iif this had been Fox, you know the firestorm this would have started. Stay classy CNN!!
It turns out that the late ambassador’s writings were the genesis of a reporting by CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night on his program, “Anderson Cooper 360°”: “A source familiar with Ambassador Stevens’ thinking says that in the months before his death, he talked about being worried about what he called the never-ending security threats specifically in Benghazi. This source telling us that the ambassador specifically mentioned the rise in Islamic extremism, the growing Al Qaeda presence in Libya, and said he was on an Al Qaeda hit list.”
Philippe Reines, senior adviser to Secretary of State Clinton said in a statement to POLITICO: “What [CNN is] not owning up to is reading and transcribing Chris’s diary well before bothering to tell the family or anyone else that they took it from the site of the attack. Or that when they finally did tell them, they completely ignored the wishes of the family, and ultimately broke their pledge made to them only hours after they witnessed the return to the Unites States of Chris’s remains. Whose first instinct is to remove from a crime scene the diary of a man killed along with three other Americans serving our country, read it, transcribe it, email it around your newsroom for others to read, and only when their curiosity is fully satisfied thinks to call the family or notify the authorities?
