Former Clinton Aide Slams Times' Stealth Correction On Uranium One

[DonViejo]

Matthew Chapman

February 19, 2019 10:23 pm

On Tuesday, tucked into a paragraph of an article on how President Donald Trump had battled investigations against him for the past two years, The New York Times made an astonishing, seemingly accidental confession about a massive failure in their coverage of the 2016 presidential election.

“Using Congress’s oversight powers, the Republican lawmakers succeeding in doing what Donald Trump could not realistically do on his own: forcing into the open some of the government’s most sensitive investigative files — including secret wiretaps and the existence of an F.B.I. informant — which were part of the Russia inquiry,” said the article. “House Republicans opened investigations into the F.B.I.’s handling of the Clinton email case and a debunked Obama-era uranium deal indirectly linked to Mrs. Clinton.”

It is remarkable that the Times casually mentioned the Uranium One deal as a “debunked” scandal, noted Nick Merrill, a former State Department official and adviser to Hillary Clinton, because it was the Times that promoted that story in the first place:

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[Baitball Blogger]

1. They should have posted a front page retraction.

[calimary]

10. Yes indeed.

I still love Hillary. And I still have faith in her. And I STILL want her to be my President, even though I don’t want her to run again because of the shit she’ll face all over again.

I do not know why she’s been such a punching bag for so long - unless it’s because too many VERY small pissants feel threatened by her.

[comradebillyboy]

2. The Times also ginned up the bogus Whitewater Scandal.

NY Times has been virulently anti Clinton, both Bill and Hillary, since at least 1991.

[deurbano]

4. "Clinton Cash!" EMAIL ! "Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia"

This (and Whitewater, etc., ad nauseam) is why I only read the NYT on Incognito.

[mikeysnot]

7. Throw in the Cheney leaked info

to Judith Miller that he then used as a basis for his illegal war in Iraq by citing NYT as the source.

[Nasruddin]

3. "Mistakes were made"

Classic

[ismnotwasm]

5. Its not surprising

People still believe that crap.

[malaise]

6. Good spot

M$Greedia helped to produce the Con

[uponit7771]

8. It'll be 2025 and the NYT will still be doing shit like this with the Clinton's

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. NYT manufactures clouds and shadows for NYT to report

NYT has at least 2 personalities -- a reporter of news and a manufacturer of news.

[RVN VET71]

11. "Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it."

The NYT lacks the character to publicly apologize for manipulating the truth. But this is true of virtually all newspapers and media outlets. It doesn't mean you can never believe what the Times says. It does mean that you meet every story with skepticism. Papers and other media look for scoops and do not let facts get in the way of being first with a story. Retractions go on the back pages, underneath the underwear ads.

(Quote above is from Jonathan Swift, a brilliant man who knew a thing or two about truth.)