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"It doesn’t take much investigation to realize the main institutional sources in the #Russiagate mess – the security services, mainly – have extensive records of deceiving the media. ... Failure to ask follow-up questions happened constantly" taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-i…
"One of the first reports that went sideways involved a similar dynamic: the contention that some leaked DNC emails were forgeries. ... This could have been stopped sooner if examples of a forgery had been demanded from the Clinton campaign earlier."
"Reporters repeatedly got burned and didn’t squawk about it. ... Why isn’t McClatchy demanding the heads of whatever 'four people with knowledge' convinced them to double down on the Cohen-in-Prague story?"
"How do the Guardian’s editors not already have @lukeharding1968’s head in a vice for ... the most dubious un-retracted story in modern history – the tale that ... Julian Assange, had somehow been visited in the Ecuadorian embassy by Paul Manafort without leaving any record?"
