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For light is capable of “showing up” everything for what it really is. It is even possible (after all, it happened to you!) for light to turn the thing it shines upon into light also. (Ephesians 5:13-14 Phillips)

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Prayers about Media Influence in our Nation

Special Report: Praying for Media and Truth

The latest string of text messages between disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok and his in-house paramour Lisa Page appear to show a concerted strategy to leak secret information to The Washington Post and The New York Times.

The text message detailed in a letter from Rep. Mark Meadows, North Carolina Republican, to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein paint a damning picture of media manipulation in April 2017, just weeks before FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Trump.

“I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you I want to talk to you about media leak strategy with DOJ before you go,” Mr. Strzok texted Ms. Page on April 10, according to Mr. Meadows, quoting text messages recently released by the Justice Department after nearly a year of intragovernment wrangling between congressional Republicans and the DOJ.

Two days later, Mr. Strzok alerted Ms. Page that two articles would be coming out about Ms. Page’s “namesake,” one that would be worse than the other. Ms. Page’s “namesake,” it is reasonable to conclude, is Naval Academy graduate and retired Navy intelligence officer Carter Page, who had been under secret FISA surveillance since October 2016. . .

Over the course of the days of these texts, a series of articles detailed the ultrasecret FISA warrant information about Mr. Page, claiming that the FBI had concrete evidence that the former Trump campaign volunteer was acting as an agent of a foreign government, Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

At the White House, meanwhile, an increasingly frustrated Mr. Trump was being assured by Mr. Comey that the president was not under investigation.

However, Mr. Comey and his team at the FBI couldn’t figure out a “media leak strategy” to get that story out. The only leaks Mr. Comey’s dream team could come up with, apparently, were illegal ones suggesting that Russians had infiltrated the newly inaugurated president’s campaign and maybe even his White House.

This is a deceitful and sordid story with potential crimes of obstruction of justice, abuse of power and, at the very least, illegal release of state secrets related to national security.

But Ms. Strzok and Mr. Page’s media leak strategy was able to work only if they had partners at The Washington Post and The New York Times. The leaks fed a ravenous beast in those papers’ newsrooms, which were hungry to damage the new president and vindicate their chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton. . . . 

As the whole “Russia probe” drama unfolds little by little, bear in mind that while much of the scandal envelops the FBI and DOJ over their misconduct during the 2016 election (in their mishandling of the Clinton email case as well as their surveillance of the Trump campaign), the mainstream media is very much a part of the scandal.

You can’t have a “media leak strategy” without plenty of willing accomplices in the media. (Commentary by Larry O’Connor, The Washington Times.)

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Noami
September 15, 2018

Ronald Reagan was continually assaulted by the media, particularly in the area of his intelligence.

L. Ann Johnson
September 15, 2018

I pray that our president would be the leader in being truthful and fostering a respect for the rule of law. I pray that he and his cabinet be men and women of integrity in all their ways. It is not right to curse, accuse and lie about others. He, as well as us all, are to be humble and submitted before God, not bragging on ourselves.God help our leaders prayerfully be leaders along the way of Ronald Reagan. He did not have to fight the media, because he gave them respect for doing their job versus jabbing at them.

Michelle Wittenbrook
September 14, 2018

Abba Father, You gave all authority to Jesus- including speaking peace into a storm, and You have blessed us with these same spiritual blessings and authority IN Christ (Eph 1:3 and 19). So by the authority granted unto me by Christ, I speak “Peace” into the storms of chaos and strife in the media and in the government. May the Shalom of the Most High God rest upon America and dismantle the schemes and tactics of the enemy in Jesus’ name. And may that which wicked men mean for evil, now bring about good and the saving of the lives of many (Genesis 50:20) for the glory of God and His Kingdom! Amen.

stella
September 14, 2018

Mr. President, your family, current leaders you stand with God, know He is surely your covering… “They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven! … They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. … The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before …”
‎Deuteronomy 28:7 KJV

Stella
September 14, 2018

Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
‎Isaiah 30:18 NIV just as in Exodus, now President Trump, in God’s service to clean out and turn America back to God. It is written EVERY knee shall bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ, He is Lord/GOD. I suggest now is better than later friends, for the sake of you & your households; receive Jesus’ sacrifice, we were found guilty / sentence-death / He gave His life for yours.

Carolyn
September 14, 2018

Lord, hear the prayers of Your people as we stand with President Trump, believing Your anointing has elevated him to lead our nation. I pray that You would shine Your light on the media, the deep state, and those hiding in darkness; that You would strip them of their cover, reveal the appalling corruption and bring our nation to its right mind, so that people on both sides of the aisle would cry out for justice.
We hide ourselves in your mercy in Christ and cry out: Let Your kingdom come and Your will be done in America as it is in Heaven.

Jo
September 14, 2018

Lord Jesus, your name is Truth. In your name, Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, I rebuke every lie of Satan within our government; expose the perpetrators of those lies, reveal your truth, and remove those whose intent is to destroy our president, and even our nation. Surround our president with your warrior angels, their two-edged swords drawn, and protect the one whom you have put over America for this time. Thank you for President Trump…he is a blessing over us. Pour your wisdom into his heart, and continue to use him mightily for America and its people. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Shelley Wilson
September 14, 2018

Yes, Lord Jesus,
May all Your enemies in Government and Media and Entertainment be EXPOSED and DEPOSED!

Spirit of God, Pour out Repentance and Deliverance from ALL Deception…
Father, draw all these lost souls to Jesus!
In the Mighty Name of the Lord Jesus Christ!

AMEN!

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