The tone and content of your little article reveal that while it MAY fall to the Executive to substantiate their complaints, there is another body before which you must justify yourselves: the public.
We remember. We remember Candy Crowley. We remember YOUR staff sharing information with one campaign. We have no reason to take you at your word.
And there is yet another party concerned and involved. I imagine few at CNN are much concerned with the God of the Christians and the Jews, but there is reliable indication that he very much opposes bearing false witness.
Justice itself, if you are not happy with what you would probably call “cruder” ideas of God, opposes being careless about the truth, suppressing what is true and suggesting what is false. So let us personify justice and say he also has a seat at this table.
Your documented and undeniable partisanship places the republic in peril. But if, by some unforeseen eventuality, we Biblical theists are right, you place yourselves in far greater peril.
Amen.