Remember the story CNN ran in June 2017 & later retracted that got three reporters fired? Stack it up next to tonight’s NYT story. 
(first one is more properly a Politico link about CNN)
and... weirder
basically CNN fired three people for what amounts to process errors on a piece that nine months later would be vindicated as an accurate story
don’t get me wrong they may well have been egregious & fireable process errors - but pretty interesting that the core assertion turns out to hold up
this whole thing reeks
