CBS confiscated the records of an acclaimed investigative journalist it laid off this last month who is embroiled in a First Amendment lawsuit. On Thursday, Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor and frequent Fox News legal analyst, reported that CBS News seized the “files, computers, and records” of Catherine Herridge upon her termination.
Herridge joined CBS from Fox News in 2019 and was one of the few journalists among legacy outlets who doggedly reported on myriad major Democrat corruption evidence.
“I have spoken confidentially with current and former CBS employees who have stated that they could not recall the company ever taking such a step before,” Turley wrote in a Hill op-ed Thursday. “One former CBS journalist said that many employees ‘are confused why [Herridge] was laid off, as one of the correspondents who broke news regularly and did a lot of original reporting.’”
“The timing of Herridge’s termination immediately raised suspicions in Washington,” Turley added. “She was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur report on Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop. She continued to pursue these stories despite reports of pushback from CBS executives, including CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews.”
In a pending First Amendment lawsuit, Herridge refused to reveal her sources to a federal judge related to an investigation she ran in 2017 when she still worked for Fox News.
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