The attack here is truly on the 4th estate. The research that one would expect from journalists is shown to be lacking. Whether that is complacency on the part of journalists due to the attitude of "another Clinton screwup" or whether it is just plain lazy of them not to investigate further from the FUD from the Cox report is unknown. In a republic where the electorate is limited to the news they can get from the mainstream media -or, perhaps worst, a secondary media that requires rigor in reviewing everything that is said and researching it ourselves we clearly are in peril. Either we succumb to the apathy of ".. no one knows what is going on or they are all lying" or we check out of the voting process as we can not tell what is true and what is not - it is a sad commentary that our system of government is now in the hands of vocal minorities that have no reason to listen to others.