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Washington Post columnist demands CNN retract claim that Steele dossier had been 'partly corroborated' after key source was arrested for lying: Newspaper adds embarrassing correction to its own stories
"A Washington Post columnist has sharply criticized CNN for failing to retract its claim that British ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier is 'corroborated,' following a federal indictment that raised serious questions about the document.
Media critic Erik Wemple issued the harsh rebuke in a column on Friday, calling on CNN to correct its longstanding claim that its reporting had verified substantial portions of the 2016 dossier alleging Donald Trump conspired with Russia.
Last week, a federal indictment alleged that Russian-born analyst Igor Danchenko, a key source for the Steele dossier, fabricated conversations with one source, and used a Democratic political operative as another.
As Wemple noted, CNN hosts including Don Lemon and Wolf Blitzer have repeatedly claimed on-air that the network had verified or corroborated substantial portions of the dossier.
Those remarks appear to refer to a 2017 CNN report that cited unnamed US investigators had 'corroborated some of the communications' in the dossier.
That report stated that some conversations described in the dossier could be confirmed as taking place at the time and place described -- but did not confirm the contents of the conversations.
'Narrow though the reporting was, it served as a springboard for broader expressions of confidence in Steele’s work,' wrote Wemple.
'Whatever the distortions, “corroboration" is a poor word to associate with the dossier,' he added.
Wemple argued that
CNN had provided breathless, splashy coverage of its alleged corroboration of the dossier, but only muted and grudging air time for the Danchenko indictment that seriously undermined the dossier's claims.
'That brand of asymmetry helps explain why many people mistrust CNN,' he wrote.