[Mariner]

No mention of the fact they KNEW it was a complete fabrication and that no responsible news organization would touch it.

[Responsibility2nd]

I’ve always had greater respect for the slackers at 4chan than I ever had for CNN.

Now more than evah!

[Zathras]

Fake News hiding behind the First Amendment.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Did they end it with the word..."courage" by chance?

(fellow fake news puppet Dan Rather reference)

CNN...cartoon network news...

...because it's always fun watching Wile E. Coyote blowing himself up over and over and over...

[Texas Fossil]

From a legal standpoint they won’t be sued.

From a crediblity point, they fried their own ass. Cooked their good. Killed the golden hen. Reinforced what we all knew, that they are ComDem shills.

[OpusatFR]

CNN is going to be frozen out by important contacts if they continue this tack of Trump-hate.

It’s never a good thing to post scurrilous, unsubstantiated things as facts when they aren’t.

~and then try to double down.

Access to the WH is vital for a news organization, and if the president decides its not worth his time, they could lose even more than they already have.

The best course for them would be a heartfelt apology.

~or unemployment if they can’t.

[Ray76]

CNN is shown in airports, waiting areas, and other public places. They need to divest themselves of CNN.

Get them out of the airports. Get them out of the train stations.

[Mercat]

So far it has not shown up on Facebook trending list... hmmm. Huffypuffy calls it salacious and unsubstantiated.

[Shanty Shaker]

They probably should be providing a list of reporters and editors that are put on leave while they investigate. But then that would be acting as responsible adults.

[HarleyLady27]

CNN knew, ‘yellow’ journalism at it finest...they are dirty, they are loosers (losers), they lie when it fits their plans, always have...

They got caught yesterday, and was called out to the world today...along with Donna Basille handing Hillary debate questions, along with ‘fake polls’ in the campaign, they have been squidded and now cannot go any lower...they are at the bottom of the ‘feeder’ now with buzzfeed, salon, Huffy Post, and the lot of them...

They used to be able to ‘pull the wool over our eyes and ears’ they can't anymore, even if their paychecks come from foreign governments, we do not listen, and we do not watch...

‘Yellow’ Journalism is done for, they mean nothing, their printed matter isn't fit for ‘fish wrap’ or ‘bird cage liner’ anymore as we think more of the ‘fish’ and ‘birds’ than to associate it with them...

Bye Bye, your gone, your done, and you can leave with Barky...and don't let the door hit you on the way out!!!

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

In prison, all of you. Absolutely no rest until that organization is out of business.

[KC_Lion]

If CNN keeps this kind of carefully sourced reporting going, it won’t be long before CNN becomes TNN.

[Red Badger]

If even the NYT doesn’t want to touch it, why the hell did they?..............

[cincinnati65]

but, but, but.......we said it was “unsubstantiated”.....

[Geronimo]

They are the Comedy News Network, so phony and fake that they’re laughable...

[Kenton]

If Trump effectively cuts them off as far as contact with the White House, that’s gonna kill their ratings. I wonder how long they will last.

[LouieFisk]

“It represents the core of what the First Amendment protects”
==
Fake news?

[Organic Panic]

CNN is full of Obama.

Our local “news” channel links “news” to CNN. None of it is even news. It’s all objective driven speculation with “unnamed sources,” “experts believe,” or their favorite, “there are some.”

They don’t report. They don’t investigate. They only interview other reporters.

[upsdriver]

Any mention by CNN of their feeding debate questions to Hillary Clinton via Donna Brazile? or other emails naming CNN reporters of being part of the Clinton for president team? Their “fake news” credentials didn’t begin with this current story.

[Stingray51]

Deny C(fake)NN a pass for the WH, and then deny passes for any other organization that assists C(fake)NN in evading this by passing on video from WH press briefings, etc....

[Bryher1]

Looks to me like Buzzfeed took their cue from CNN...

CNN Bombshell

CNN says it is not reporting the details of the memos because it has not verified them. It adds that while the information was circulating for months, the intelligence community has now “checked out the former British intelligence operative and his vast network throughout Europe and find him and his sources to be credible enough” to use the information in briefings. However, intelligence officials also found the information sensitive enough to only provide it to Trump, President Obama, and the eight chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, CNN says. Again, there’s no indication so far as to whether the intelligence community believes the British operative’s reports to be accurate. Even if the operative’s sources are genuine, for example, they might be trying to sow misinformation, which the unclassified version of the report on alleged Russian hacking noted was a favorite Kremlin tactic.

Shortly after CNN’s report, BuzzFeed posted what it says is the full 35-page memo on which the shorter memo delivered to Trump and others is based. BuzzFeed said it had not verified the report and that it contained some clear errors.