‘This just got a million times worse’: Yashar Ali’s scoops on fired CBS News employee Ashley Bianco point to a bona fide media mega-scandal

Megyn Kelly has landed an exclusive interview with Ashley Bianco, the former ABC News employee who was fired by CBS News after ABC News was exposed for their #EpsteinCoverup. And if these scoops from Yashar Ali are any indication, Bianco should have quite a lot to say:

Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

Replying to @yashar

7. The name of the former ABC News employee who was fired by CBS News this week is Ashley Bianco. In the past 24 hours she has deleted her Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

Bianco was an associate producer at Good Morning America before leaving for CBS This Morning last month

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Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

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8. Today, @megynkelly is posting an interview she conducted with Ashley Bianco on her new Instagram page and YouTube channel. https://www.instagram.com/megynkelly/ 

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Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

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9. It's really important to remind folks that Ashley Bianco was not fired by CBS News for leaking the footage of Amy Robach to Project Veritas. No one at either network knows who did that.

Bianco was fired because ABC News determined that she accessed the footage of Robach

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So, neither ABC News nor CBS News determined that Bianco herself leaked the footage, but the fact that she had access to it was enough to warrant her termination from CBS News? What?!

David French

✔@DavidAFrench

So . . .

Now even "maybe whistleblowers" must be purged, when the maybe whistleblower embarrasses broadcast news.

This is what it looks like to inflict power on those who find truth. https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1192819445904936961 …

Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

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9. It's really important to remind folks that Ashley Bianco was not fired by CBS News for leaking the footage of Amy Robach to Project Veritas. No one at either network knows who did that.

Bianco was fired because ABC News determined that she accessed the footage of Robach

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But wait! There’s more:

Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

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10. All the idiots leaving me voicemails, DMing me, and replying to my tweets saying I’m covering for CBS News in the tweet above need to be reminded that you wouldn’t know about this if it weren’t for me.

It’s actually worse that she was fired for accessing footage, not better

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And speaking of worse:

Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

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11. For those asking (and I think this is an important distinction), Bianco is not accused of accessing ABC News footage while she was at CBS

Bianco, according to my sources, accessed the footage while she was still an ABC employee

She was not fired by ABC, she left on her own

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So, if we’re understanding this correctly, Bianco didn’t actually do anything wrong. And she lost her job anyway.

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But isn't this sort of worse? She didn't even leak the video and they punished her simply for being adjacent to the story? And again, why is CBS doing ABC this solid? Union or contractual violation? Lied on resume?

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RBe@RBPundit

This is important.

If she accessed ABC files while working at CBS, the firing is justifiable.

If she accessed ABC files while still working at ABC, but CBS fired her, that's like really bad.

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Malak Kobbe@Malak_Kobbe

This is insane

So CBS fired her at the direct request of ABC https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1192828436051570695 …

Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

Replying to @yashar

11. For those asking (and I think this is an important distinction), Bianco is not accused of accessing ABC News footage while she was at CBS

Bianco, according to my sources, accessed the footage while she was still an ABC employee

She was not fired by ABC, she left on her own

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Ashe Schow

✔@AsheSchow

So that would make her firing by CBS really wrong then https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1192828436051570695 …

Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

Replying to @yashar

11. For those asking (and I think this is an important distinction), Bianco is not accused of accessing ABC News footage while she was at CBS

Bianco, according to my sources, accessed the footage while she was still an ABC employee

She was not fired by ABC, she left on her own

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RBe@RBPundit

HOLY CRAP. https://twitter.com/AG_Conservative/status/1192836355413413888 …

(((AG)))@AG_Conservative

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https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1192828436051570695?s=21 …

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RBe@RBPundit

So CBS fired her for something she did while she wasn't an employee.

All to cover up the fact that ABC (and probably CBS) SPIKED the story about Epstein.

Yeah. This just got a million times worse. https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1192828436051570695 …

Yashar Ali 

✔@yashar

Replying to @yashar

11. For those asking (and I think this is an important distinction), Bianco is not accused of accessing ABC News footage while she was at CBS

Bianco, according to my sources, accessed the footage while she was still an ABC employee

She was not fired by ABC, she left on her own

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Pradheep J. Shanker@Neoavatara

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Much, much worse.

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Meanwhile, media firefighters are tripping all over themselves to avoid covering what appears to be a multilayered mega-scandal.

Malak Kobbe@Malak_Kobbe

Not one major news network has reported on the ABC scandal.

It took independent and gutsy journalism from @yashar for us to even have gotten the full scope of this story. Even at the risk of angering the execs at major news orgs.

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