{"id":69020,"date":"2021-06-13T18:44:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69020"},"modified":"2021-06-13T18:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:50:53","slug":"another-truth-teller-arkancided-broke-clinton-lynch-tarmac-corruption-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69020","title":{"rendered":"Another Truth-Teller Arkancided, Broke Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Corruption Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Reporter Who Broke Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Story And Received &#8216;Significant&#8217; Death Threats Found Dead<\/h1>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The body of a Birmingham, Alabama journalist who broke the story about the controversial 2016 tarmac meeting in Phoenix between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch was found on Saturday morning of an &#8216;apparent suicide,&#8217; according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2021\/06\/christopher-sign-birmingham-tv-anchor-former-alabama-football-player-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html\"><em>AL.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/tarmac1.jpg?itok=OhM7USi_\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/tarmac1.jpg?itok=OhM7USi_\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/tarmac1.jpg?itok=OhM7USi_\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9d84b3db-ad48-4150-952f-f762de974b8e\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>45-year-old Christopher Sign &#8211; a news anchor at\u00a0<em>ABC 33\/40<\/em>\u00a0in Birmingham, was discovered at around 8 a.m. by Hoover police and fire personnel, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our deepest sympathy is shared with Christopher\u2019s loving family and close friends. We have lost a revered colleague who\u2019s indelible imprint will serve forever as a hallmark of decency, honesty and journalist integrity. We can only hope to carry on his legacy. May his memory be for blessing,&#8221; said\u00a0<em>ABC 33\/40<\/em>\u00a0Vice President and General Manager Eric Land in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2021\/06\/13\/birmingham-news-anchor-christopher-sign-passes-away\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tarmac bombshell, which gave the appearance that Bill Clinton was privately pleading his wife&#8217;s email case after then-FBI James Comey launched a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/02\/james-comey-fbi-director-letter\">new investigation<\/a>, is thought to have contributed to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s loss in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Sign, meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>had complained last year of receiving &#8216;significant&#8217; death threats, having his credit cards hacked, and creating code-words to use with his children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1403968330982174720&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Freporter-who-broke-clinton-lynch-tarmac-story-and-received-significant-death-threats&amp;sessionId=f6a626bb4d2596e46b5b1dd51941672f035da552&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1403968330982174720\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sign, an Emmy-award winning reporter, made national headlines over the June 27, 2016 tarmac meeting at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport amid the FBI&#8217;s investigation into Hillary Clinton&#8217;s use of an unauthorized server.\u00a0<strong>The meeting between Clinton and Lynch occurred\u00a0<em>days<\/em>\u00a0before Comey announced that the bureau would not press charges against Hillary<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; after the agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-15\/fbi-edits-clinton-exoneration-go-far-beyond-what-was-previously-known-comey-mccabe-s\">changed internal language<\/a>\u00a0describing Clinton&#8217;s conduct from &#8220;gross negligence&#8221; to &#8220;extremely careless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gross negligence&#8221; is a legal term of art in criminal law often associated with recklessness. According to Black&#8217;s Law Dictionary, gross negligence is\u00a0<strong>A severe degree of negligence taken as reckless disregard<\/strong>,&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>Blatant indifference to one&#8217;s legal duty, other&#8217;s safety, or their rights<\/strong>. &#8220;Extremely careless,&#8221; on the other hand, is not a legal term of art.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the &#8220;gross negligence&#8221; &#8211;&gt; &#8220;extremely careless&#8221; edit (performed by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok), the FBI removed a key justification for elevating Clinton&#8217;s actions to the standard of &#8220;gross negligence&#8221; &#8211; that being the &#8220;sheer volume&#8221; of classified material on Clinton&#8217;s server. In the original draft, the &#8220;sheer volume&#8221; of material &#8220;supports an inference that the participants were grossly negligent in their handling of that information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also removed from Comey&#8217;s statement were all references to the Intelligence Community&#8217;s involvement in investigating Clinton&#8217;s private email server, as well as\u00a0<strong>changing the language to downgrade the probability that Clinton&#8217;s server was hacked by hostile actors, changing their language from &#8220;reasonably likely&#8221; to &#8220;possible&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>an edit which\u00a0eliminated yet another justification for the phrase &#8220;Gross negligence.&#8221; To put it another way, &#8220;reasonably likely&#8221; means the probability of a hack due to Clinton&#8217;s negligence is above 50 percent, whereas the hack simply being &#8220;possible&#8221; is any probability above zero.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Bill Clinton&#8217;s tarmac meeting\u00a0<em>appears<\/em>\u00a0to have had quite the effect on his wife&#8217;s investigation, despite the fact that she still lost. And now the guy who broke the story is dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1404061314373332992&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Freporter-who-broke-clinton-lynch-tarmac-story-and-received-significant-death-threats&amp;sessionId=f6a626bb4d2596e46b5b1dd51941672f035da552&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1404061314373332992\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/reporter-who-broke-clinton-lynch-tarmac-story-and-received-significant-death-threats\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/reporter-who-broke-clinton-lynch-tarmac-story-and-received-significant-death-threats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Who Broke Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Story And Received &#8216;Significant&#8217; Death Threats Found Dead ZeroHedge.com The body of a Birmingham, Alabama journalist who broke the story about the controversial 2016 tarmac meeting in Phoenix between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}