Catherine Herridge — the acclaimed CBS News investigative journalist known for her reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal — accused the network of “journalistic rape” for seizing her files after she was fired during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday.
Breaking her silence for the first time since her controversial dismissal in February, Herridge called the move by her former bosses an assault on journalism.
“When my records were seized I felt it was a journalistic rape,” Herridge testified at the hearing, titled “Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources.”
“When the network of Walter Cronkite seizes your reporting files, including confidential source information, that is an attack on investigative journalism.”
The Emmy-award winning reporter — who is in the middle of a First Amendment case being closely watched by journalists nationwide — also said that confiscating her files could have put her sources at risk.
BS. She was their employee. Her work was theirs, not hers. Does an auto worker on the assembly line own the car that he worked on? No. Does the manager of a division of a corporation own the corporate data? No. Does the hostess at a restaurant own the food? No. If they get fired can they take that stuff home with them? No.