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CNN's Undisclosed Ties To Fusion GPS
2017-10-29
[Daily Caller] CNN’s reporting on the Trump-Russia dossier has left out at least one crucial fact: the close ties between the network and the opposition research firm at the center of the dossier controversy.

CNN’s reporting on the dossier, led by justice correspondent Evan Perez, has been favorable to the firm, Fusion GPS, and hyped the dossier’s credibility. Left out of Perez’s reporting, which has relied largely on unnamed sources, is his personal closeness to Fusion GPS’ operatives. Fusion has repeatedly been described in Senate testimonies as a smear-for-hire operation that manufactures misleading or false media narratives for its clients.

Glenn Simpson, the Fusion co-founder most often associated with the dossier, is used to working on stories with Perez. As reporters at The Wall Street Journal, Perez and Simpson regularly co-authored stories on national security.

Another Fusion founder, Tom Catan, worked as a reporter for the Journal at the same time as Perez and Simpson. The third Fusion co-founder, Peter Fritsch, worked above Perez and Simpson as the senior national security editor.

Simpson and Fritsch left the WSJ in 2011 to launch Fusion. Perez jumped from the paper to CNN in 2013. Another longtime Journal reporter, Neil King, left the paper to join Fusion in December 2016.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Dirty cop Mueller also leaked to CNN
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684   2017-10-29 14:51  

#4  CNN: But it's different when we do it because we're going to publish you're home address and phone number!
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-10-29 14:37  

#3  No, you are not imagining things. The 'Deep State' uses media outlets quite aggressively.

The Comey leak to one of his NYT operatives (which is apparently no longer discussed) is but one example.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-29 07:03  

#2  Apparently fake news is a profit center while pushing propaganda for the team you support. Maybe a few months ago the CNN Trump Russian WAR-ROOM team should of just walked down the hall to find their answers.
Posted by: Airandee    2017-10-29 06:56  

#1  My shocked face. :
Posted by: anymouse   2017-10-29 00:52  

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