60 Minutes Claims Russia Manipulated The 2016 US Elections

60 minutes recently claimed Russia manipulated the US 2016 elections. Their episode "How Russian intelligence officers interfered in the 2016 election" claimed Russia  controlled US elections by hacking the Democratic Party's  computer server and releasing the Party's secret emails. 60 minutes asserted Democratic Party candidates were denied election victories as a result of the email releases.  However, the episode hid from the public what was actually discovered in the emails .

The Party's secret emails revealed the real collusion during the 2016 elections was between the media and Hillary Clinton's Campaign. It was the media that tried to manipulate US elections.

For example, one email displayed a list of reporters expected to attend an 'off the record" secret dinner meeting with Hillary's staff at John Podesta's house on April 9 2015. Podesta  was the Chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign,  The list includes:

Liz Kreutz (ABCnews)
Julie Pace (AP)
Ken Thomas (AP)
Lisa Lerer (AP)
April Ryan (American Urban Radio Network)
Jennifer Epstein (Bloomberg )
Ruby Cramer  (Buzzfeed )
Steve Chagaris (CBSNews)
John Harwood (CNBC)
Dan Merica (CNN)
Amanda Terkel (Huffington Post )
Evan Handler (Los Angelos Times)
Anita Kumar (McClatchy )
Alex Seitz-Wald (MSNBC)
Mark Murray (NBC)
Tamara Keith (NPR)
Amy Chozik (New York TImes)
Maggie Haberman (New York TImes)
Annie Karni (Politico)
Gabe Debenedetti (Politico)
Amanda Becker (Reuters)
Anne Gearan (Washington Post)
Laura Meckler (Wall Street Journal)
Peter Nicholas (Wall Street Journal)
Colleen McCain Nelson (Wall Street Journal)

Another 'off-the record' meeting at Joel Beneson's (chief strategist for Hillary Clinton) house occurred on April 10. This meeting also included many reporters.  The names of the reporters along with a memo concerning the meeting appear below.

Additionally, a Democratic Party email indicated reporter Maggie Haberman operated as a spin doctor for Hillary Clinton when Haberman wrote for Politico. She currently works for the New York Times.  Another email revealed the chief political correspondent for Politico,  Glenn Thrush, sent an entire section of an article to Podesta for approval.

60 minutes revealed none of this information in their segment. Instead, their investigative segment gave viewers the impression that the Russians prevented Democratic candidates from winning elections. It seemed as if the entire segment was a political ad stating 'Vote for the Democratic Party'. An additional purpose of the segment was to divert public attention away from the only real collusion that occurred during the 2016 elections - a collusion between the media and Hilary Clinton's campaign.