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WaPo walks back CNN's reporting on Trump WikiLeaks email
Axios ^ | 12/8/2017 | Shane Savitsky

Posted on 12/08/2017 11:40:26 AM PST by mojito

A September 2016 email sent to senior Trump campaign officials directed them to documents that had already been publicly released by WikiLeaks, per The Washington Post. Initial reporting on the email this morning from CNN said the email was sent on September 4 — WaPo reports that it was actually September 14 — and left it an open question whether the documents had been previously released.

Why it matters: WaPo's reporting massively changes the significance of this story, indicating that the sender — a still unknown "Michael J. Erickson" — might have just been trying to alert Trump campaign officials to the publicly available WikiLeaks cache. It caps off a week of huge reporting blunders on the Russia probe after ABC News mischaracterized Michael Flynn's planned testimony and Reuters and Bloomberg misreported the target of a Mueller subpoena of Deutsche Bank.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abc; bloomberg; clintonnonnews; cnn; districtofcolumbia; donjr; fakenews; fbi; jamescomey; mediawingofthednc; mueller; muellergate; partisanmediashills; peterstrzok; reuters; robertmueller; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; wikileaks
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More fake news. These clowns just can't help themselves.
1 posted on 12/08/2017 11:40:27 AM PST by mojito
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“walks back” = got caught in a lie.


2 posted on 12/08/2017 11:42:15 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: gubamyster

MORE FAKE NEWS


3 posted on 12/08/2017 11:42:44 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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What’s the point of these people using “sources”? They’re just making this s**t up on the fly anyways!


4 posted on 12/08/2017 11:42:57 AM PST by dowcaet
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Rush was beating the snot over CNN this afternoon.
Must have worked.


5 posted on 12/08/2017 11:44:54 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: mojito; GraceG; beaversmom

6 posted on 12/08/2017 11:45:41 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: mojito

Love Instapundts’s comment on this: “CNN. Endless series of clowns stepping on rakes.”


7 posted on 12/08/2017 11:47:06 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Some random Trump supporter sends link to public link to documents that Wikileaks released,

PROOF COLLUSION! LOL


8 posted on 12/08/2017 11:47:23 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!Goo)
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To: mojito
Democrats like to make a lot of false things ...

1. Moore yearbook attribution
2. Nunes classified information allegations
3. Entire Russia Dossier
4. Numerous "hate crime" hoaxes
5. Wikileaks offered unreleased documents to Trump campaign
6. Trump bank records subpoenaed

There has to be some sort of psychological explanation for their desire to believe things that aren't true.

9 posted on 12/08/2017 11:48:51 AM PST by SSS Two
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BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!


10 posted on 12/08/2017 11:51:44 AM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: SSS Two

Well you forgot the big one, they also believe that they can get Marxism right.


11 posted on 12/08/2017 11:55:17 AM PST by Federal46
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It is getting tougher and tougher to track all of this fake news. You need to assume it is all fake, so you need to wait a few news cycles to get to some form of truth. The press is making the ‘Freedom of the Press’ a joke.. .they should not be free to lie then act like their freedoms are impinged when caught..


12 posted on 12/08/2017 11:56:33 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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Brian Ross II. BTW the russians did give the espeonage act violating emails to WIKILEAKS!! Assange today bet CNN $100,000 that they have no proof they did . It is a lie. It was not even a hack— It was a LEAK!!!and the leaker may have been murdered.


13 posted on 12/08/2017 11:57:25 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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cnn_Clowns
14 posted on 12/08/2017 11:58:37 AM PST by timestax
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My OSX update inserted news notifications from CNN without my permission. I had to search all over the web to find out how to delete this intrusion. They must be desperate.


15 posted on 12/08/2017 12:05:12 PM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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I've got a conspiracy theory for you:

The Clintonistas conspired with the FBI/DOJ (Strzok) to cook up the Russian collusion business after Tony Podesta had Seth Rich murdered for leaking the DNC emails.

Unlike CNN’s efforts, that's a story that has yet to be disproven.

16 posted on 12/08/2017 12:08:54 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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When you drive 100 mph trying to bring down the POTUS, facts be damned.


17 posted on 12/08/2017 12:12:35 PM PST by Doctor Freeze
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It’s a smear job...intentionally done.


18 posted on 12/08/2017 12:21:57 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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19 posted on 12/08/2017 12:55:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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We need a new law. That any MSM news report found to be fake needs to be corrected and that correction put on there front page.


20 posted on 12/08/2017 1:07:01 PM PST by Revel
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