After years of buying and selling the lie and the damage done, the Washington Post has written a “Post” Mortem on Collusion. It has edited two stories and published an explanation about the need to make changes to past reporting.
It is an unusual move. A Major Trump-Hating, Collusion peddling Democrat media mouthpiece is stepping away after years of proudly shining light on a lie.
Wassup?
John Durham’s most recent indictment has exposed more of the Russian Collusion hoax. Igor Danchenko’s source was not Russian. They were not Kremlin insiders. It was a Democrat operative with ties to Hillary Clinton.
And now WaPo wants to wash its hands. The Mia Culpa is not brief (subscription not required).
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 Post admits this is unusual, unprecedented. I’d agree. The question is, why? What happens to The Post if it leaves those lies standing given the new direction John Durham has taken the case? Not new to us, by the way, but the evidence appears so compelling that a reliable Left-Wing narrative mill needs to back off?
And not just retreat but full-blown, on the record, yeah, looks like the Clinton’s made it all up.
Related: Russiagate Source” was a Clinton Campaign Operative Laundering Lies Through Igor Danchenko to Steele
Steele’s dossier consisted of raw information and unconfirmed tips from unidentified sources, which he compiled as part of a political opposition-research project for an investigative firm working on behalf of the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.
And…
The indictment secured by Durham on Nov. 4 suggests, but doesn’t explicitly assert, that Danchenko may have gotten his information about the hotel encounter not from Millian but from a Democratic Party operative with long-standing ties to Hillary Clinton.
The Clinton’s laundered all of this through law firms, so they will never personally be held to account. Individuals may end up in prison if the Clinton Crime Family hasn’t offed them first. Small consolation.
Most of the media and indeed the millions of Democrats who shared the collusion lie endlessly for years will leave it as is wherever they shared it. The urban myth will live. Russian Collusion will percolate. Not nearly enough Dems will be held to account for how easily they were misled.
But WaPo has reasons for the about-face. Something about journalist integrity.
Talk about a collusion myth.
HT | Legal Insurrection
