Bias

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Lately, the right is making a big thing out of bias, in their rebukes of various charges against them. This is nonsense. Bias exists. It exists whether or not a claim is true. There is no way any kind of criminal charge exists without bias of some form, or, another. When police arrest somebody, they have a bias as to their guilt. When a prosecutor prosecutes somebody, or a defense attorney defends their client, bias exists. When a whistleblower, blows the whistle on wrongdoing, his/her opinion is biased toward the need for wrongdoing to be brought to light. When a counterintelligence agent, who's job it is to week out intelligence threats, believes somebody is committing some form of intelligence infraction, he is biased. He should be. As long as his/her integrity is intact, bias makes no difference. In the past couple of decades, media organizations like CNN, worry too much about showing bias when biased reporting is justified. Media organizations like FOX news, or MSNBC, (I'm being generous with MSNBC) are biased toward the left or right. I long for the days of journalists like Edward R. Murrow would call out a politician the way he did with Joe McCarthy. "Sen. McCarthy, have you no decency?". Claiming bias against a witness is a non-argument for innocence or guilt.