Michael Isikoff ping. What’s he up to now...
Isikoff, Hosenball and the Media-Deep State War on Truth
12/24/2019, 12:17:58 PM · by Kaslin · 13 replies
American Thinker.com ^ | December 24, 2019 | Jack Cashill
As the media-deep state Russia Hoax unravels, two journalists deserve special attention: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, was the first to break the story that the FBI was investigating Carter Page. Hosenball, now a correspondent with Reuters, was first to break the story that candidate Donald Trump was being advised, as the Reuters headline tells us, “By Ex-U.S. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn—Who Favors Closer Russia Ties.” The “closer ties” that worry me, however, are those between America’s intelligence community (IC) and reporters like these two. I first met Isikoff and Hosenball in...
... Winer, who was a longtime aide to former Sec. of State John Kerry, was in contact with the founders of Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele. Winer also served as a background source for two reporters, Michael Isikoff and David Corn, for stories they wrote before the November 2016 election touting Steele’s allegations.
Winer also disseminated an anti-Trump dossier peddled by two Clinton-linked operatives, Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal. ....—— source: The Daily Caller, by Chuck Ross