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On 2 November 2016, Fox News' Bret Baier reported that unnamed FBI sources had confirmed that at least five foreign intelligence agencies are known to have hacked Hillary Clinton's e-mail server, that several investigations are ongoing — including a criminal probe of pay-for-play allegations regarding the Clinton Foundation — and that an indictment will likely result. After the accuracy of these claims was disputed by other news outlets, however, Baier admitted his reporting had been erroneous: Baier also contradicted his own report that the FBI had established a 99% certainty that at least five foreign entities hacked Clinton's private server: Unfortunately, by the time he issued his corrections Baier's original, inaccurate reporting had already sparked a flurry of even more inaccurate reports from unreliable web sites claiming that Clinton herself had been officially indicted for treason. This specimen, for example, was posted on Ending the Fed on 3 November 2016, and got a considerable amount of play via social media: The article is egregiously inaccurate in these key respects: 1. Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), who appears in the video above, is not the Department of Homeland Security chairman (there is no such entity). McCaul is the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. 2. While McCaul did state in the video that in his opinion Hillary Clinton is guilty of treason for using a private e-mail server while Secretary of State, he did not announce an indictment — nor, indeed, would he have the judicial power, as a Congressman, to secure such an indictment — against Clinton. 3. As we know from Bret Baier's own corrections, it is not the case that any government official has gone on record saying an indictment of Clinton is likely, much less that an indictment already went forward.
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