The Steele Dossier has been discredited over the past two weeks. This dossier was used for many years to provide credible information on Donald Trump. While it’s been obvious for a long time that the dossier was unverified and full of false conspiracy theories, John Durham’s indictment has given us an eye into exactly how the sausage was made and put the last nail in the coffin.
Igor Danchenko was indicted as a source of Christopher Steele. However, it was actually a Hillary Clinton agent who fed Danchenko numerous salacious claims.
With those revelations has come the ritual rewriting historical events. The Washington Post is deleting parts of articles from the past that have discussed Steele Dossier.
A new version of The@washingtonpostCorrects and removes portions of two stories about the Steele dossier. Latest by me: https://t.co/2FqaHFQUAh
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) November 12, 2021
The Washington Post on Friday took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles, published in March 2017 and February 2019, that had identified a Belarusian American businessman as a key source of the “Steele dossier,” a collection of largely unverified reports that claimed the Russian government had compromising information about then-candidate Donald Trump.
The newspaper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, said The Post could no longer stand by the accuracy of those elements of the story. It had identified businessman Sergei Millian as “Source D,” the unnamed figure who passed on the most salacious allegation in the dossier to its principal author, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
Of course, what the Post didn’t do was reveal who their fake news sources were from their original reporting. You’d think that when a source lies to you, that would be grounds to expose them in order to prevent it from happening again. The Post would not be able to do that, as it would have to admit defeat.
Instead, we are getting relatively quiet editing of years old articles to make it seem as if the nation’s second-largest newspaper didn’t completely botch this story. That way, years from now, there’s no real record of their failure for people who are otherwise ill-informed. There’s something really sketchy about that, especially since Post reporters literally won Pulitzers for their garbage reporting on Trump and Russia.
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— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 12, 2021
Who will pay for the loss of media freedom? No. For most of Trump’s presidency, the Trump-Russia hoax dominated the news. Reporters claimed bombshell after bulletshell only to find their lies and stories falling apart time and time again. Their mission was completed. Trump is not president anymore and his term was significantly handicapped due to the witch-hunt special counselor. It was never the end goal.
There are only a handful of articles that can be changed after damage has been done.
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